[Indications for venous thrombectomy]

Thrombectomy has a place in the treatment of acute venous thrombosis. However, this is only the case in certain conditions. Its use is indisputable in true blue venous thrombosis which is a rarely occurring pathology. It may be proposed and discussed for recent thrombosis, of a known and correctable cause, blocking one or several important venous channels in a patient likely to develop an invalidating postthrombotic syndrome.