Minimally-Invasive Stenting Effectively Treats Painful Post-Thrombotic Syndrome

Minimally-invasive stenting effectively treats painful post-thrombotic syndrome

A major multi-site clinical trial co-led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown that post-thrombotic syndrome - a common and often painful complication suffered by many people who have experienced blockages of major veins due to blood clots - can be effectively treated with a minimally invasive procedure.

Stenting Eases Hard-to-Treat Venous Disease After Deep Vein Thrombosis

(MedPage Today) -- Stenting and enhanced antithrombotic therapy together reduced the severity of post-thrombotic syndrome in the phase III C-TRACT trial -- albeit with patients left at higher bleeding risk. There was a significant improvement...

C-TRACT trial results hail "new era" for post-thrombotic syndrome following DVT

Suresh Vedantham presents the C-TRACT results at SIR 2026 “These patients have suffered in silence because few physicians are aware of this complication or know how to effectively treat it,” said Suresh Vedantham, an interventional radiology physician and professor of radiology at WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology in St Louis, USA, and principal investigator of the C-TRACT trial. The results of the National Institutes of Health …

Simple stent procedure can treat post-thrombotic syndrome

Clinical trial shows stent placement can treat common syndrome following blood clot, improve quality of life

C-TRACT Evaluates Endovascular Therapy to Treat Postthrombotic Syndrome After DVT

April 13, 2026—The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) announced results from the C-TRACT study, which is investigating the treatment of postthrombotic syndrome (PTS) after deep vein thrombosis (DVT). The study is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health with additional support from the SIR Foundation. It was co-led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, and McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. The st…