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What To Do If An 80 Yr Old Has Been Diagnosed With Breaking Down Of Platelets And Has Lost Height, Weight Due To Spine Deterioration?
My sister has been given a diagnosis of her platelets are breaking down. She has spine deterioration for over 6 years and is on pain medicine. Has lost over 6 inches in height, and only weighs 95 lbs now, she will be 80 on Sept 29th this year, prior to this she was a healthy active Senior Citizen.
Mon, 21 Apr 2014
May having multiple myeloma.urgentely get MRI spine, serum electrophoresis,serum calcium,alkaline phosphatase,ESR,urine for M protein,if supportive bone marrow biopsy
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