Letter to the Editor

Virchow's Triad Revisited

Authors: Daniel J. Brotman, MD, Steven R. Deitcher, MD, Gregory Y.H. Lip, MD, Axel C. Matzdorff, MD, PhD

Abstract

Three factors predispose patients to thrombosis—stasis, hypercoagulability, and vessel wall injury—which have commonly been termed Virchow’s triad. However, this is not what Rudolf Virchow originally described.

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