Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Images
Treatment is usually not needed.
Support Groups
Expectations (prognosis)
The outcome is expected to be good without treatment.
Complications
There are usually no complications.
Calling your health care provider
The health care provider usually discovers this condition after noticing prolonged clotting in the process of running other laboratory tests.
Images
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Review Date: 02/28/2011
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; and Yi-Bin Chen, MD, Leukemia/Bone Marrow
Transplant Program, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed
by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
