Sep

20

2021

How can a patient with cirrhosis be hypercoagulable when their INR and aPTT are elevated?

By William Aird

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How can a patient with cirrhosis be hypercoagulable when their INR and aPTT are elevated?

Because these patients have reduced levels of both procoagulants and anticoagulants, and the INR/PT and aPTT do not detect changes in anticoagulants.

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