D.V.T. Treatment Options
There are some options to treat Deep Vein Thrombosis. Some of them are anticoagulation therapy, thrombolysis and thrombectomy. Dr. James Benenati, Director, Non-Invasive Vascular Laboratory at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, explains anticoagulation therapy is a very complex way of saying you take a blood thinner and it thins your blood out. This is the most common treatment; 95% o the patients are treated with anticoagulation therapy.
According to him, thrombectomy and thrombolysis are terms that mean they put a drug into the patient's body and it dissolves the clot. Dr. Brian Schiro, Interventional Radiologist at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, says one of their side effects is an increased risk of bleeding associated with taking blood thinners.
