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Originally Posted by theg69
Agreed with everything you say about the anticoagulants not affecting exercise capacity, but does anyone truly know the diagnosis. If he had a PE, that would definitely affect his exercise capacity.
I actually saw this young patient who was an athlete, albeit not a high performance one, who presented with exertional shortness of breath and in retrospect calf pain that he thought was a calf strain. He actually turned out to have a PE needing to be on anticoagulants for 3 months.
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I suppose not, but I would doubt any hematologist would take someone off anticoagulants a month after a PE. If anything, I'm guessing he doubts the DVT diagnosis