Deep Vein Thrombosis: Follow-Up

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Follow your doctor’s advice. Take your medication. Now for most patients, three months of anticoagulation is deemed to be appropriate. For some patients, that’s extended to six months, and for rare patients, up to 12 months. But after the appropriate period of treatment, some patients remain at high risk for recurrent clot, and in those patients, there are regimens that one can use to try to prevent recursive clot at the risk of bleeding. In some patients that have chronic thromboembolic disease and chronic DVT, there may be complication of swelling. For these patients, compression stockings may be useful.