For male patients who strongly prefer to stop anticoagulation for unprovoked VTE, are there any tools or labs that you would use to guide your decision making?

For example, the DASH score, d-dimer, repeat imaging?

Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice

This is a challenging situation as one of the more useful tools to predict risk of recurrence after unprovoked VTE, the HERDOO2 rule, suggests that even with an otherwise "perfect" score, men have a high enough risk of recurrence to recommend ongoing anticoagulation. As such, and given the generally...

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For male patients who strongly prefer to stop anticoagulation for unprovoked VTE, are there any tools or labs that you would use to guide your decision making?

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