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Hospital Medicine
What patient related factors and hemodynamic parameters would lead you to avoid transbronchial biopsies in patients with pulmonary hypertension?
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I try to avoid if INR is > 1.7 or platelet count is less than 30,000 in patients who have Grp I PAH.
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