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bleeding diathesis

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bleeding diathesis,
a predisposition to abnormal blood clotting.


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Administration of omega-3 fatty acids should be avoided in patients on anticoagulants and in those known to have an inherited or acquired bleeding diathesis.
However, severe anemia and thrombocytopenia that causes bleeding diathesis is produced by hemolysis, reduced cell deformity of parasitized and non-parasitized erythrocytes, increased splenic clearance, reduction of platelet survival, decreased platelet production, and increased splenic uptake of platelets, and can be produced by P.
Hemorrhage and coagulopathy are now listed under one contraindication as bleeding diathesis.
 
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