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Any DVT is dangerous, it's just a matter of when. There is no way to predict when you will throw off a embolus and end up with a PE or, if you have a PFO (which most people are unaware they have) you can end up with a stroke. DVTs are not something to mess around with.1 point
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Putting a "solid" time to it will be nearly impossible because the clinical course of a DVT is altered by a constellation of concepts. You can look through the literature and probably could make the reasonable conclusion that a DVT is associated with significant long term morbidity regardless of the cause. One to get you started: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9299855/1 point