A 54-year-old previously healthy woman is hospitalized for pneumonia. On the 10th hospital day she is found to have swelling and tenderness of her right leg, which has developed over the past 48 hours. Raising the leg elicits pain. An ultrasound examination reveals findings suggestive of femoral vein thrombosis. Which of the following conditions is most likely to have contributed the most to the appearance of these findings?
Hi, thank-you for providing the brief history. As per the age of the patient and the treatment of pneumonia i don't think the DVT is caused because of anything. In fact I feel that DVT will be there as a pre factor but didn't show any signs until it became active to provide some signs. In clinical practice we have seen patients having underlying such pathologies and gets detected on a later stage. Since now, it is detected the Chat Doctor. Regards Jay In