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In a prospective cohort of 242 patients with provoked deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary embolism, 24-month recurrence risk was 19.7% after major transient risk factors.
- Why it matters: Current low-risk assumptions for provoked VTE depend on inconsistent definitions of provoking factors, leaving uncertainty about recurrence risk by risk-factor type.
- What they did: Patients completed at least 3 months of anticoagulation, then were followed after treatment discontinuation; recurrence was estimated with Kaplan-Meier analysis using the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis classification.
- The result: Symptomatic recurrent VTE occurred in 13 with major and 7 with minor transient risk factors; overall 24-month risk was 9.5%, and hormone-associated VTE showed 0 recurrences.
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