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Publication AbstractsTraveller's Thrombosis: A Review of Deep Vein Thrombosis Associated with TravelMichael Bagshaw, MFOM, D.Av.Med., Chair, and The Air Transport Medicine Committee, Aerospace Medical AssociationAviat Space Environ Med 2001; 72:848-51 AbstractThere is an increasing suspicion among the travelling public and the international media of an association between the occurrence of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and air travel. It was noted by the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology that up to 20% of the total population may have some degree of increased clotting tendency. It follows that some air travellers are at risk of developing DVT when, or soon after, travelling. There have been no epidemiological studies published which show a statistically significant increase in cases of DVT when travelling in the absence of pre-existing risk factors. The literature was reviewed. Current evidence indicates that any association between symptomatic DVT and travel by air is weak, and the incidence is less than the impression given by recent media publicity.Keywords: deep vein thrombosis, venous thromboembolism, traveller's thrombosis, economy class syndrome. Information on subscribing, and on obtaining copies of an article or of an entire issue. Table of Contents for Volume 72, Number 9 of the ASME journal.
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