The relationship between AB0 blood group and deep venous thrombosis

Abstract

Objective: Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) may cause serious health problems such as pulmonary mbolism and extremity lose because of broken circulation. So prophylaxis and treatment becomes valuable. This study aims to show that the relationship between ABO blood type and deep venous thrombosis. Material and Methods: This study included the patients with DVT who had treated between January 2011 to December 2013 in our hospital. The documentaries searched retrospectively from hospital's archive and the patients chose from who had DVT in lower extremity and shown by Doppler USG. The control group rendered randomly with the patients who treated without inpatient treatment and hadn't gotten DVT. Exclusion criteria were DVT with malignity, immobility, trauma, pregnancy. FV Leiden mutation, FVIII and vWF tests didn't include to study's data because of not to working this inspections routinely. The patient's blood group compared with the control group's blood type. Results: Although AB blood group were significantly high in the cases (p=0,039); A, O and B types hadn't any relationship with DVT. Nonetheless age, sex, Rh antigen, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive lung disease were unrelated. Conclusion: This study shows that AB blood type has elevated risk for DVT.