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Virchow's triad refers to three factors that Rudolf Virchow suggested predisposed a patient to developing venous thrombosis- local trauma to the vessel wall
- stasis (of blood flow)
- hypercoagulability (of the blood)
Stated another way, they are:
i) trouble with the vessel
ii) trouble with the flow
iii) trouble with the blood itself.
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