Novel Evidence-Based Diagnosis, Classification and Management of Lower Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT), Prevention of DVT Recurrence and the Post-Thrombotic Syndrome: Personal Experiences and Critical Appraisal of the Literature 1998-2018

Jan Jacques Michiels^1,9,11*, Wim Moossdorff¹, Janneke Maria Michiels^1,2, Mildred Lao¹, Hanny Maasland¹, Hans Smeets¹, Ming Han¹, Benilde Cosmi³, Petr Dulicek^4,9, Karel Roztocil⁹, Viera Stvrtinova^5,9, Ludovit Gaspar^6,9, Zsolt Pecsvarady^7,9 and Pier Luigi^8,10

¹Primary Care Medicine, Medical Diagnostic Center, Rijnmond Rotterdam, The Netherlands

²Primary Care Medicine, Family Physician, Rotterdam-Zuid, and Leiden, The Netherlands

³Department of Angiology & Blood Coagulation, Marino Golinelli University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

⁴Fourth Department of Internal Medicine-Hematology, University Hospital in Hradec Kralove and Charles University Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove and Prague, Czech Republic

⁵Internal Medicine Medical Faculty Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

⁶Department of Internal Medicine, Flor Ferenc Teaching Hospital, Hungary

⁷Vascular Center Nuova Villa Claudia, Rome, Italy

⁸Department of Vascular Disease, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

⁹Central European Vascular Forum, Prague, Czech Republic

¹⁰Hemostasis Research Laboratory and Department of Hematology, Universty Hospital Antwerp, Belgium

¹¹Goodheart Institute in Nature Medicine, Blood coagulation & Vascular Medicine Science Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

^*Corresponding Author: Jan Jacques Michiels, Multidisciplinary Internist & Investigator, Goodheart Institute in Nature Medicine, Blood, Coagulation and Vascular Medicine Research Center, Europe Erasmus Tower, Veenmos 13, 3069 AT Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Tel: 31-626970534 Email: