Paget-Schroetter disease medical therapy

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Medical Therapy

The traditional treatment for thrombosis is the same as for a lower extremity deep vein thrombosis, and involves anticoagulation withheparin (generally low molecular weight heparin) with a transition to warfarin.