Treatment of post-thrombotic syndrome - medication, lifestyle changes and prevention

Early treatment relies on timely diagnosis of the disease. Prevention is equally important.

Prevention should include measures to prevent the development of deep vein thrombosis itself and, if treated, the development of post-thrombotic syndrome.

It is important to avoid recurrent episodes of phlebothrombosis. As her recurrence increases, so does the risk of developing post-thrombotic syndrome.

It also helps with thrombosis and its late complications.

Prevention includes:

• change your habits
  • lots of movement
  • reduce inactivity
  • change your body position often if your work is sedentary
  • put your legs higher up
  • drink a lot of fluid, beware of dehydration
  • tense your leg muscles if sitting or standing for a longer period of time
• lifestyle change
• reduce overweight and obesity
• quit smoking and restrict alcohol consumption
• adequate treatment of associated diseases
• rational nutrition/diet
• use compression stockings, flight socks
• use adequate anticoagulant treatment

The treatment mainly requires a conservative approach.

Both preventive and curative are useful, i.e. changing one's habits, lifestyle, and compression aids.

Thorough anticoagulant therapy or venopharmaceuticals are also important. Timely removal of venous thrombosis also affects the overall course, either by thrombolysis (a method of dissolving thrombi) or invasively, i.e. thrombectomy.

If skin defects occur, they must be properly treated.