How do you approach evaluation of pulmonary vein thrombosis?

Is there any difference between anticoagulants in this clinical context (e.g. anti-Xa inhibitors vs warfarin vs LMWH)?

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Pulmonary vein thrombosis is a rare condition that is usually associated with injury to the vessel, for example after surgery or lung transplantation, or as a complication of lung cancer. I am not aware of any data on the relative efficacy of different anticoagulants in PVT but from a biologic persp...

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Thank you so much, Dr. @Eliot C. Williams!

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