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#99 Bleeding vs. Clotting Risk: Gray Matters Segment

Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast

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How Long Should I Anticoagulate a Patient With a DVT or PE?

The risk of having a recurrence or progression of the DVT or PE without anticoagulation in the first 30 days is about 50%. So that's where that first month we really want the patients to be anticoagulated. In 1995 in the New England Journal of Medicine the DURAC trial looked at patients with a cute VTE who were randomized to therapeuticAnticoagulation for either six weeks or six months.

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