New deep vein thrombosis treatment uses radiology to break up blood clots

Robin Tierney

“Let’s forget this rest-in-bed stuff,” said Dr. Gerard O’Sullivan. Soon after treatment for deep vein thrombosis, he physically walks his patients down the corridor so they can prepare to leave the hospital.

O’Sullivan is an interventional radiologist — a physician who specializes in minimally invasive, targeted treatments. In mid-March at the Society of Interventional Radiology scientific meeting in Washington, D.C., he described the biggest DVT treatment advance in 40 years: using a device called the Trellis to break up blood clots faster, more completely and with fewer complications than conventional DVT treatment.

Conclusions were based on the largest DVT study group to date, using registry data for 532 patients.

source: examiner.com