Minor leg injuries like ankle sprains and muscle ruptures may increase the risk of blood clots in the legs or lungs. Minor leg injuries like ankle sprains and muscle ruptures may increase the risk ...

Surely, the doctor was about to come to my bedside and tell me it’s just a bad sprain and I could go home. He didn’t. I was diagnosed with my first DVT. There was a huge blood clot behind my knee.

“Deep vein thrombosis is when a blood clot forms in one of the deeper veins in the body, typically in the big veins in your calves or thighs,” says vascular surgeon Anahita Dua, MD, an ...

Emily Chesterton died after a blood clot in her leg resulted in a pulmonary ... diagnosed her with “a calf sprain, long-Covid ...