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Tag: Post-thrombotic syndrome

  • DVT: Long-Term Damage – Post-Thrombotic Syndrome

    While many people who have a DVT in a leg or arm recover completely, others can be left with some chronic symptoms: leg or arm swelling, pain, aching, heaviness, and cramping are some of the symptoms. These symptoms, in the case of a leg DVT, are typically worse after standing for a long time, and may…

  • Acute Proximal DVT – Offering Patients Enrollment into ATTRACT Trial

    If you as a health care professional are involved in the management of patients with acute (proximal) DVT, please consider giving the patient (who has leg symptoms ≤ 14 days) an opportunity to be enrolled in the national ATTRACT trial (information on the trial is here). This NIH-funded, multi-center trial investigates whether catheter-directed thrombectomy (±…

  • May-Thurner Syndrome

    Summary A congenital stenosis of the left main pelvic vein (= left common iliac vein) by pressure from the overlying right common iliac artery (image 1) is referred to as May Thurner syndrome. While this anatomic variant is a risk factor for DVT, in many people is causes no symptoms and is irrelevant.