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Timing of VTE Events in Cystectomy

• ACS NSQIP Database queried for 1,307 patients who underwent radical

cystectomy for malignancy between 2005 to 2011

• 6% overall incidence of clinical VTE

• Median time to VTE 14 days

• 55% diagnosed after discharge

• 6.4% 30 day-mortality if diagnosed with VTE

• Within the limitation of the study, predictive risk factors for VTE: age,

operative time and sepsis

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