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Do you use direct oral anticoagulants to treat port-a-cath related VTE in patients with an active malignancy?

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Hematology · BIDMC

The initial trials that established DOACs as effective and safe in most patients with cancer-associated thrombosis (Agnelli et al., PMID 32223112, Planquette et al., PMID 34627853) only included patients with lower-extremity DVT or PE but clearly showed equivalence to low-molecular weight heparin (w...

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