How do you counsel patients with elevated factor VIII levels for their thrombosis risk?

Should we stop checking factor VIII levels as part of thrombosis workup?

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Do you check FVIII levels as a part of thrombosis work-up?

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Hematology · University of Wisconsin

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I don't check the factor VIII level as part of a thrombosis workup because the result rarely if ever affects my management of these patients.

I would explain to the patient that factor VIII levels are a function of several variables, including age, vascular health (and hence blood pressure, smoking,...

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