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Pages 177-180 (April 2002)
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Vol. 38. Issue 4.
Pages 177-180 (April 2002)
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La ecografía venosa compresiva de miembros inferiores: una herramienta diagnóstica en manos de neumólogos
Venous compression ultrasonography of the lower limbs: a diagnostic tool in the hands of pneumologists
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M. Arenas Gordillo, R. Otero Candelera
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Correspondencia: Castillo de Marchenilla, 5, 2, 1.° A. 41013 Sevilla
, J.L. López Campos, E. Barrot Cortés, J. González Brazo, A. Verano Rodríguez
Unidad Médico-Quirúrgica de Enfermedades Respiratorias. Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío. Sevilla
A. Cayuela Domíngueza
a Unidad de Investigación. Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío. Sevilla
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El propósito de este trabajo es estudiar la concordancia de la ecografía que realizamos en nuestro servicio de neumología (ecografía compresiva), comparada con la que realizaban los radiólogos en nuestro hospital (ecografía dúplex), en el diagnóstico de pacientes con sospecha de enfermedad tromboembólica venosa que ingresaron en nuestra planta.

Se incluyó a 78 pacientes consecutivos ingresados en nuestra planta de neumología por sospecha de enfermedad tromboembólica venosa, a los cuales se les practicaron ambas técnicas.

El acuerdo observado fue del 90% con un índice de concordancia kappa de 0,81.

Se produjo una buena concordancia entre el resultado de ambas técnicas y, por tanto, la ecografía compresiva es una técnica que pueden utilizar perfectamente los neumólogos en el diagnóstico de la enfermedad tromboembólica venosa.

Palabras clave:
Trombosis venosa
Tromboembolismo
Ultrasonografía

Our objective was to study agreement between the compression ultrasound images taken in our respiratory medicine department and the duplex ultrasound images obtained by radiologists at our hospital for patients admitted to our ward with suspected diagnoses of venous thromboembolism.

Seventy-eight consecutive patients admitted to our respiratory medicine ward suspected of venous thromboembolism were enrolled. Both types of images were available for all patients studied. Agreement was 90% with a Kappa coefficient of 0.81.

Agreement between the two techniques was good. Therefore, compression ultrasonography is a technique that can be handled by respiratory medicine specialists for the diagnosis of venous thromboembolism.

Keywords:
Venous thrombosis
Thromboembolism
Ultrasonography
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