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Can i get a dvt if i take anticoagulants on a long flight?
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Unlikely: If you are taking prophylactic doses of low molecular weight Heparin or therapeutic doses of oral anticoagulants, the risk of deep vein thrombosis is close to zero.
Answered 6/25/2014
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