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ecj-4473	Charitidou, Stella; Aslanidis, Theodoros; Papalexandris, Stellios	Fatal pulmonary embolism following ankle fracture in a 23-year-old man	2014	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1424	75	54	[Emergency Care Journal 2014; 10:4473] Fatal pulmonary embolism following ankle fracture in a 23-year-old man Stella Charitidou,1 Theodoros Aslanidis,2 Stellios Papalexandris3 1Emergency Department, General Hospital of Ptolemaida; 2Mobile Intensive Care Units, National Center of Emergency Care, Thessaloniki Department, Greece; 3Private Orthopedic Surgeon, Manchester, UK Abstract Patients with lower extremity injuries are at increased risk of venous thromboembolism. It has been suggested that this method of immobilization may increase the risk of deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) because of inactivation of the ankle pump.1 However, the real incidence of venous thorm- boembolism (VTE) and pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with ankle fracture is still unknown, as the diagnosis includes various types of anatomic injuries, thus the literature reports a wide range of incidence for both VTE and PE.	cache/ecj-4473.pdf	txt/ecj-4473.txt