Venous thromboembolism in patients immobilised at home
Authors: Raquel López-Reyes, Dolores Nauffal, Marta Ballester, José Manuel Martín-Antorán, Marta Saraiva de Sousa, Antoni Riera-Mestre, Justo Ruiz-Ruiz, Carmen Fernández-Capitán, Fernando Uresandi, Manuel Monreal
Journal: European Respiratory Journal (2015)

The natural history of venous thromboembolism (VTE), its impact on outcome and the rationale for prophylaxis are well established for hospitalised, acutely ill medical patients [1–10], but are less clear for nonhospitalised immobilised patients. Current guidelines for antithrombotic therapy recommend the use of prophylaxis in hospitalised, acutely ill medical patients, and suggest against its use in chronically immobilised persons at home and in patients with isolated lower-leg injuries requiring leg immobilisation [11]. However, there are no suggestions on the use of VTE prophylaxis in acutely ill medical patients immobilised at home. Fatal PE after immobility at home was more frequent than after immobility in hospital <http://ow.ly/J0UIr> The coordinator of the RIETE Registry was Manuel Monreal (Spain). The RIETE Steering Committee members were Hervè Decousus (France), Paolo Prandoni (Italy) and Benjamin Brenner (Israel). The RIETE National Coordinators were Raquel Barba (Spain), Pierpaolo Di Micco (Italy), Laurent Bertoletti (France), Sebastian Schellong (Germany), Inna Tzoran (Israel), Abilio Reis (Portugal), Marijan Bosevski (Republic of Macedonia), Henri Bounameaux (Switzerland), Radovan Malý (Czech Republic) and Philip Wells (Canada). The RIETE Registry Coordinating Center was S&H Medical Science Service, Madrid, Spain. The members of the RIETE group were as follows. Spain: M. Alcalde-Manero, V. Andújar, J.I. Arcelus, R. Barba, M. Barrón, B. Barrón-Andrés, J. Bascuñana, A. Blanco-Molina, I. Casado, F. Conget, C. de Ancos, F. del Molino, J. del Toro, J.A. Díaz, C. Falgá, A.I. Farfán, C. Fernández-Capitán, C. Font, L. Font, P. Gallego, F. García-Bragado, V. Gómez, J. González, D. González-Marcano, E. Grau, R. Guijarro, J. Gutiérrez, L. Hernández, S. Hernández-Huerta, L. Jara-Palomares, M.J. Jaras, D. Jiménez, J.L. Lobo, L. López-Jiménez, L. López-Montes, R. López-Reyes, J.B. López-Sáez, M.A. Lorente, A. Lorenzo, M. Macià, O. Madridano, P.J. Marchena, J.M. Martín-Antorán, F. Martín-Martos, M. Mellado, M. Monreal, M.V. Morales, D. Nauffal, J.A. Nieto, M.J. Núñez, R. Otero, B. Pagán, J.M. Pedrajas, G. Pérez-Rus, M.L. Peris, I. Pons, J.A. Porras, A. Riera-Mestre, A. Rivas, M.A. Rodríguez-Dávila, P. Román, V. Rosa, N. Ruiz-Giménez, J. Ruiz, A. Sampériz, R. Sánchez, O. Sanz, S. Soler, J.M. Suriñach, G. Tiberio, R. Tirado, J. Trujillo-Santos, F. Uresandi, B. Valero, R. Valle, J. Vela, C. Vilar, A. Villalobos and J. Villalta. Argentina: P. Malfante P. Belgium: P. Verhamme and T. Vanassche. Brazil: T. Gadelha. Canada: P. Wells. Czech Republic: R. Malý and J. Hirmerova. France: L. Bertoletti, A. Bura-Riviere, F. Moustafa, D. Farge-Bancel, A. Hij, I. Mahe, A. Merah and I. Quere. Germany: S. Schellong. Israel: A. Braester, B. Brenner, I. Tzoran and D. Zeltser. Italy: A. Apollonio, G. Barillari, M. Ciammaichella, F. Dalla Valle, P. Di Micco, P. Ferrazzi, A. Guida, R. Maida, F. Pace, S. Pasca, C. Piovella, P. Prandoni, R. Re, L. Rota, E. Tiraferri, D. Tonello, A. Tufano, A. Visonà and B. Zalunardo. Portugal: A. Mondragão, J.L. Ribeiro de Almeida and M.S. Sousa. Republic of Macedonia: M. Bosevski and M. Zdraveska. Switzerland: A. Alatri, H. Bounameaux, L. Calanca and L. Mazzolai. Venezuela: J.C. Serrano. We thank S&H Medical Science Service for their quality control data, logistic and administrative support.