The Saudi clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis of the first deep venous thrombosis of the lower extremity

Fahad Al-Hameed¹, Hasan M Al-Dorzi¹, Abdulrahman Shamy², Abdulelah Qadi³, Ebtisam Bakhsh⁴, Essam Aboelnazar⁵, Mohamad Abdelaal⁶, Tarig AlKhuwaitir³, Mohamed S Al-Moamary⁷, Mohamed S Al-Hajjaj⁸, Jan Brozek⁹, Holger Schunemann⁹, Reem Mustafa¹⁰, Maicon Falavigna^11
1 Department of Intensive Care, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
² Department of Radiology, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
³ Department of Medicine, King Fahad General Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
⁴ Department of Medicine, King Fahad Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
⁵ Department of Surgery, Um Al Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
⁶ Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
⁷ Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia
⁸ King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
⁹ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
¹⁰ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
¹¹ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada;Institute for Education and Research, Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Correspondence Address:
Fahad Al-Hameed
Chairman of the Saudi Association for Venous-Thrombo-Embolism (SAVTE), Department of Intensive Care, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences KSAU-HS, King Abdul-Aziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah
Saudi Arabia

Source of Support: This clinical practice guideline was funded by the Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia,, Conflict of Interest: Ebtisam Bakhsh, Hasan M Al Dorzi, and Essam Aboelnazar re-ceived payment as speakers and research grants for issues related to treatment of venous throm-boembolism.

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DOI: 10.4103/1817-1737.146849