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How do you counsel patients with minimally symptomatic factor VII deficiency about procedures and periprocedural management?

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Hematology · University of Wisconsin
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Partial Factor VII deficiency is relatively easy to discover (long PT/INR) but the bleeding risk tends to be over-estimated. The available evidence (Peyvandi et al., PMID 22321862) suggests that significant bleeding is uncommon unless the factor VII level is less than about 15% of normal. I would th...

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