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Old Fri May 27, 2011, 08:25 AM
Marlene Marlene is offline
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John had surgery to repair a torn quad tendon. At the time, his platelets were in the 30's so they transfused platelets prior to and during surgery. He ended up getting some red cells after but then his HGB was only up to 10 at the time and he had already lost some blood from the torn tendon. Even when his platelets were at 8K, he did not experience serious bleeding.

Both our docs say the 50K is the level at which you can have surgical procedures.

You may want to find out what your clotting time is. There are other factors involved with blood clotting.

Your B12 level, is at the low end of normal. According to more current thinking, a level of 500+ should be the target for "normal" levels.

If they haven't already check, ask them to check your Vitamin D & K, folate, B6, zinc, and copper.
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Marlene, wife to John DX w/SAA April 2002, Stable partial remission; Treated with High Dose Cytoxan, Johns Hopkins, June 2002. Final phlebotomy 11/2016. As of July 2021 HGB 12.0, WBC 4.70/ANC 3.85, Plts 110K.
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