Extended anticoagulation beyond the initial 3 months is indicated for all types of VTE, except in surgery-or trauma-VTE or in patients at high risk of bleeding. Are you up to date on the latest treatment options for VTE and their duration?  Expert haematologists Prof. Dimitrios Tsakiris (University of Basel, Switzerland) and Prof. Jerzy Windyga (Institute of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw, Poland) engage in a discussion on this important topic. This is the third podcast in a four-part series on thrombosis in various clinical conditions. In this podcast we focus on anti-thrombotic treatment for VTE and how long optimal treatment should be.