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What is your recommended long term management of extensive dural venous sinus thrombosis in an otherwise healthy young patient?

When would you stop anticoagulation?

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Can anti-cardiolipin or anti-beta-2 glycoprotein antibodies cause prolonged PTT in the absence of a lupus anticoagulant?

Labs with normal PT, but prolonged PTT (47 sec, ULN 40 sec) that does not correct on immediate mix. Lupus anticoagulant negative (DRVVT and hexagonal ...

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How would you manage a CVST secondary to a traumatic brain injury with the presence of intracranial hemorrhage?

When would you consider using anticoagulation and for how long?

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Do you screen children with sickle cell disease for silent cerebral infarcts?

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When do you consider testing with stroke gene panels in young stroke patients?

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Do you screen adults in your practice with sickle cell disease for silent cerebral infarcts?

The ASH 2020 guidelines have "recommended that adults with HbSS or HbSβ0 thalassemia be screened at least once for silent cerebral infarcts even ...

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When patients develop headaches from luspatercept, do they tend to improve over time?

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How do you manage drug-induced thrombocytopenia when the implicated drug is essential?

e.g. DITP from eptifibatide after a cardiac intervention

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Papers discussed in this category

American journal of hematology, 2023 May 12

An integrated therapeutic approach to sickle cell disease management beyond infancy.

The New England journal of medicine, 2014 Aug 21

More blood for sickle cell anemia?

Blood advances, 2020 Jun 23

American Society of Hematology 2020 guidelines for sickle cell disease: management of acute and chronic pain.

Stroke, 2023 Sep 07

Study of Rivaroxaban for Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: A Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial Comparing Anticoagulation With Rivaroxaban to Standard-of-Care in Symptomatic Cerebral Venous Thrombosis.

Stroke, 2024 Jan 29

Diagnosis and Management of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

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