3 Months' Versus 6 Months' Anticoagulation in Patients With DVT and/or PE

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2003-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To determine whether 3 months' anticoagulation is as good as or better than 6 months' for the treatment of DVT/PE

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: British Thoracic Society
• Treatments: Warfarin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients aged 18 years or more with suspected or proven DVT/PE whom the clinician intended to anticoagulate.

Exclusion Criteria:

• DVT/PE severe enough to require thrombolysis or pulmonary embolectomy.

• DVT/PE in the preceding 3 years.

• Neoplasia diagnosed/treated within previous 3 years.

• Pregnancy.

• Known major thrombophilias.

• Prolonged or continuous immobility or confinement to bed.

• Previous allergy to heparin or warfarin.

• Requirement for long-term anticoagulation.

• Inability to give informed consent.