What are the medical treatments for SVT?

What are the medical treatments for superficial vein thrombosis? So depending on how big the clot is and where the blood clot is, and that will guide which medical treatments are recommended. So if we typically say, and in the European guidelines this is reflected, if the blood clot is bigger than 5 centimetres in length or is within 3 centimetres of the junction with a deep venous system, then we would recommend a period of treatment with blood thinners or anticoagulation and that is typically for 45 days. Some people who are at higher risk of developing blood clots will perhaps have that duration extended, however for people who don't have any other factors going on, so I've got varicose veins associated with superficial vein thrombosis, the typical treatment length is 45 days. As I said earlier there a proportion of people who have a small blood clot that isn't near to the deep venous system that can be managed without blood thinning and they are typically re-scanned at a later date to make sure that that blood clot hasn't progressed at all.