Descarga: Cirrhosis as a risk factor for venous thrombosis
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Chronic and acute liver diseases have long been considered as the epitome of acquired bleeding disorders. Evidence in support of this included profoundly abnormal test results of routine diagnostic tests of haemostasis in combination with clinical bleeding (1). Although bleeding in patients with cirrhosis is common, many of the clinically relevant bleeding episodes – i. e. variceal bleeds – are unrelated to haemostasis. These bleeding events are rather a consequence of portal hypertension and local vascular abnormalities (2).
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