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A clinical update from the American Gastroenterological Association focuses on bleeding and thrombosis-related questions in patients with cirrhosis.

Thrombocytosis that shows up in a routine blood test increases the risk for an imminent diagnosis of several typically 'silent' cancers, such as pancreatic, ovarian, and cervical cancers.

Patients with very low platelet counts and intracranial hemorrhage have dramatically increased mortality of 73% after devastating but very rare side effect following Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

email article Intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) helped resolve the effects of vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) in three patients following receipt of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, a case series in Canada found. Following administration of high-dose IVIG, all three patients with VITT experienced reduced antibody-induced platelet activation, reported Ishac Nazy, PhD, of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and colleagues. All patients had arterial thrombotic events, and two also had venous thrombosis. However, no patients had evidence of new or progressive thro...

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