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What Causes Recurring Blood Clots On Body?
Hello,
I doubt if you know what is wrong with me. I have blots clots, was operated on left side. Blood clot was beneath collar bone. Was removed and came back again, and now I have one on my right side also. Do you have any idea what is causing this, because my doctors are baffled
Marie
I doubt if you know what is wrong with me. I have blots clots, was operated on left side. Blood clot was beneath collar bone. Was removed and came back again, and now I have one on my right side also. Do you have any idea what is causing this, because my doctors are baffled
Marie
Fri, 18 Jul 2014
HI THANKS FOR POSTING YOUR QUERY ON HEALTH CARE MAGIC.
GOING BY YOUR CLINICAL HISTORY IT SEEMS EVIDENT THAT YOU HAVE INHERITED BLOOD COAGULATION ABNORMALITY "-THROMBOPHILIAS" EX-PROTEIN C /S DEFICIENCY,ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY SYNDROME-APLAS LIKELY VENOUS THROMBOSES.THIS RISK IS QUITE SIGNIFICANT AS IT CAN CAUSE COMPLICATIONS LIKE HEAT ATTACKS(MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION),STROKE ,RECURRENT ABORTIONS ETC.CLOT DISSOLVING METHODS INCLUDE "EMBOLECTOMY ,WHICH YOU SEEM TO HAVE UNDERGONE.RECURRENT CLOTS SUGGEST SOME INHERENT DEFECT IN YOUR BLOOD CLOTTING MECHANISMS.OTHER TREATMENTS INCLUDE PLACEMENT OF AN "IVF-INFERIOR VENACAVAL FILTER" TO PREVENT CLOTS TRAVELLING TO HEART.DRUGS LIKE LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARINS,WARFARIN,ASPIRIN WOULD BE HELPFUL.GET AN DOPPLER VENOUS ULTRASOUND OF BOTH LEGS TO DETECT THE "EMBOLUS/CLOT SOURCE " IF ANY.CONSULT EXPERT CARDIOLOGIST FOR FURTHER HELP.
THANK YOU.
TAKE CARE
GOING BY YOUR CLINICAL HISTORY IT SEEMS EVIDENT THAT YOU HAVE INHERITED BLOOD COAGULATION ABNORMALITY "-THROMBOPHILIAS" EX-PROTEIN C /S DEFICIENCY,ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY SYNDROME-APLAS LIKELY VENOUS THROMBOSES.THIS RISK IS QUITE SIGNIFICANT AS IT CAN CAUSE COMPLICATIONS LIKE HEAT ATTACKS(MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION),STROKE ,RECURRENT ABORTIONS ETC.CLOT DISSOLVING METHODS INCLUDE "EMBOLECTOMY ,WHICH YOU SEEM TO HAVE UNDERGONE.RECURRENT CLOTS SUGGEST SOME INHERENT DEFECT IN YOUR BLOOD CLOTTING MECHANISMS.OTHER TREATMENTS INCLUDE PLACEMENT OF AN "IVF-INFERIOR VENACAVAL FILTER" TO PREVENT CLOTS TRAVELLING TO HEART.DRUGS LIKE LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARINS,WARFARIN,ASPIRIN WOULD BE HELPFUL.GET AN DOPPLER VENOUS ULTRASOUND OF BOTH LEGS TO DETECT THE "EMBOLUS/CLOT SOURCE " IF ANY.CONSULT EXPERT CARDIOLOGIST FOR FURTHER HELP.
THANK YOU.
TAKE CARE
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