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A Successful Collaborative Approach to the Perioperative Management After Hip Arthroscopy of a Patient with Heterozygous Prothrombin G20210A Mutation: A Case Report.

Ali ParsaMark R NazalJohn W StelzerColin A SieffScott D Martin
Published in: JBJS case connector (2020)
Hip arthroscopy is associated with a low risk of VTE with currently no guidelines for thromboprophylaxis. Patients should be managed in relation to their risk factors utilizing a collaborative, individualized approach. Treatment with short-term low-molecular-weight heparin resulted in no thromboembolism at 18-month follow-up for this patient with PTM.
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