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To the Editor: The well-designed and well-executed study by Schulman et al. (June 22 issue)¹ contributes a great deal to our understanding of the course and treatment of venous thromboembolism. Neither the excellent discussion in this article nor the accompanying editorial by Dr. Hirsh,² however, makes the point that whenever anticoagulant therapy is withdrawn, there seems to be a somewhat abrupt increase in the recurrence of venous thrombosis.

According to Table 2 in the article by Schulman et al., in the group of patients randomly assigned to receive anticoagulant therapy for six weeks, the most abrupt rise in the rate . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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