GI Bleeding – David Green, MD, PhD
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Copyright of the American Society of Hematology, 2006. ISSN: 1931-6860.

III. LABORATORY DATA

Laboratory evaluation reveals a hemoglobin of 7.6 g/dL (normal values for women range from 11.5 to 14 g/dL). The physician diagnoses inflammatory bowel disease and refers her to a surgeon for a bowel resection. Based on this information, the surgeon decided to order additional pre-operative coagulation tests.

Which test(s) should be ordered for her preoperative evaluation? Select the test(s) that would be appropriate and sufficiently sensitive to recognize coagulopathy in this patient.

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