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Is there anything i can do to help dissolve a blood clot in my portal vein? i am taking warfarin, allergic to heparin, & clot is delaying my surgery.

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Dr. Benjamin Lerner answered

Specializes in Vascular Surgery

No: You are doing everything correctly, assuming your inr is therapeutic. No form of anti coagulation has proven better than another for portal vein thombosis.

Answered 8/28/2020

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Stay on meds: Your body will reabsorb a clot if it can although this is not always possible. Staying on anticoagulants will keep clot from propagating.

Answered 3/14/2013

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Not in chronic: Usually after few weeks of portal vein thrombosis there is nothing to do except taking warfarin . In acute cases within first two weeks a physician can place intra arterial catheter in your mesenteric (intestinal) artery and infuse t-pa ( clot buster) and that may help but really it is not the standard of care in most places in the country.

Answered 6/13/2014

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