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Rheumatology
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Hematology
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Vasculitis
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ANCA Vasculitis
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General Rheumatology
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Nephrology
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Hospital Medicine
Would you start anticoagulation in a previously heathy patient with a new diagnosis of ANCA vasculitis (+PR3, RPGN, crescents on kidney biopsy) who presented with pancreatitis, splenic and renal infarcts and was also found to have CMV viremia?
Negative TEE and malignancy work up.
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