Would you extend the duration of anticoagulation in patients with a provoked DVT, but evidence of residual clot at 3 months?  

While follow up ultrasound is not usually recommended in provoked DVT, it often is done either for other reasons or by other physicians. Would this information change the duration of anticoagulation?



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