The importance of DVT in the calf is poorly understood the treatments itself reported-in previous studies, the risks may be greater than the thrombosis itself. The Journal herein told us about deep-vein thromboses in the calf after Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) disappear spontaneously with time. There are no reccurent DVT, proximal embolisation or propagation, according to the article.
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Optimal Duration to Treat Venous Thromboembolism
performed an open-label, randomized trial comparing a short oral anticoagulant course (3 months for proximal deep vein thrombosis [P-DVT] and/or pulmonary embolism [PE]; 6 weeks for isolated calf DVT [C-DVT]) with a long course of therapy (6 months for P-DVT/PE; 12 weeks for C-DVT) for a total of 736 patients were enrolled and recurrent VTE and hemorrhage (major, minor, or fatal) as an end point.
