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Article: Pivotal National Trial Uses Newest Interventional Radiology Treatment to Bust Blood Clots in Legs.
- Article from:
- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- October 2, 2008
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ATTRACT -- the first major national trial of a catheter-based treatment for deep vein thrombosis -- will evaluate the use of clot-dissolving drugs in combination with clot removal devices to prevent post-thrombotic syndrome in patients with DVT (the formation of a blood clot in a leg vein). PTS, a common irreversible complication of DVT, causes permanent damage to the veins, resulting in debilitating chronic leg pain, swelling, fatigue and/or skin ulcers. About 25- 50 percent of DVT patients develop PTS when treated with blood thinners alone. While early treatment with blood thinners is important to prevent a life- threatening pulmonary embolism, blood thinners alone do ...