The statement “Conservative treatment is recommended for deep vein thrombosis” is incorrect.
Deep vein thrombosis usually refers to deep vein thrombosis, of which lower extremity deep vein thrombosis is the most common, and the choice of treatment mainly depends on the anatomical site of thrombosis and the duration of the disease, etc. Conservative treatment is usually applied to peripheral type and central type and mixed type that lasts more than 3 days.
Deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs is divided into three types according to the anatomical site of thrombosis: thrombosis of the muscular venous plexus of the calf is called peripheral type, thrombosis of the iliofemoral vein is called central type, and deep vein thrombosis of the whole lower limb is called mixed type.
Since the peripheral type is relatively mild, and the central and mixed thrombi that are more than 3 days old are easy to mechanize and may be adherent to the vein wall, which makes it difficult to remove cleanly by surgery and loses the time for thrombolytic therapy, conservative treatment is usually recommended for the peripheral type and the central and mixed types that are more than 3 days old.
Therefore, conservative treatment is usually recommended for peripheral type, central type and mixed type which are more than 3 days old, while surgery or interventional thrombolysis is usually recommended for central type and mixed type which are less than 48 hours old. Patients with DVT should be advised by their doctors to develop appropriate treatment measures according to their specific condition.