Genetic research in Sweden has unveiled three new gene variants that dramatically increase the risk of venous blood clots, sometimes by up to 180%. These discoveries build on existing knowledge of ...

such as damage to a vein from surgery or a significant injury that affects the leg, can sometimes lead to blood clots forming behind the knee. Increasing age is another risk factor for blood clots.

Blood clots can form in both arteries and veins. However, the reasons behind them differ, as do the consequences and the ...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a condition that causes a clot in a vein (often in your ... hug your calves in a way that ...

However, certain leg pain characteristics signal a potentially life-threatening condition called deep vein thrombosis (DVT) – a blood clot forming ... Hip and knee replacements create both ...

The Lund team’s new research identified three additional genetic variants—called ABO, F8, and VWF—that also affect how blood ...

They could mean you have a serious medical problem. Blood clots in the legs, arms, groin, or behind the knee A blood clot in the veins of the leg, arm, groin (called the femoral vein), or behind ...

Most often, clots form in the lower part ... Your popliteal vein is a vessel that carries blood from your legs back to your heart. It runs behind your knee and up the back of your thigh.

Pain in the back of the knee when straightening the leg is called posterior knee pain. Finding the cause can be difficult as it can come from problems with the bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments ...

Pain in the back of the knee may be caused by an injury ... Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a blood clot that forms in a deep vein inside the leg. DVT typically affects one leg.

A Southern California man went to the hospital for routine knee surgery ... the issue wasn’t a blood clot but that the popliteal artery had been severed and his lower leg had received no blood ...