Diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis, and prevention of deep vein thrombosis recurrence and the post-thrombotic syndrome in the primary care medicine setting anno 2014

Figure 3 Event free recurrence rate of venous thromboembolism in 78 “low risk” DVT patients with no residual vein thrombosis at 3 mo post-DVT (RVT Neg) as compared to 92 "high risk" DVT patients with RVT at 3 mo post-DVT (RVT Pos group) after discontinuation of anticoagulation during 2 years follow-up in the prospective study of Siragusa et al[18]. RVT: Residual vein thrombosis.