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DVT is a relatively common disease, potentially fatal, in the awareness of subjects and kinetoprofilaxie measures (exercise legs every 2 to 3 hours to get the blood flowing back to the heart) are of great importance. The number of patients with DVT interned in the department of cardiology Recovery Hospital, Cluj-Napoca, during February 2008 - January 2009, was 18, reported the month patients were grouped by preferred period from October to December, which is important known, for prophylaxis. All patients had risk factors for the development of thrombosis, respectively: a risk factor 22% (4 patients), two risk factors 55% (10 patients), or with multiple risk factors 22% (4 patients). Exceptional importance of prevention for DVT is underlined by the fact that DVT occurred once, often determined by complications (chronic swelling of the affected member) difficult to correct, even if drug therapy was instituted promptly and correctly.

Key words: DVT, predisposing factors for DVT, kinetoterapy