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What monitoring is usually needed when taking a patient off anti-coagulation therapy for surgery? e.g. CT scan, d-dimer?For reference, this family member's CHADS2-VASC score is 4.Thank you for your help. The CHADS2-VASC calculator definitely improved my understanding.
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No monitoring is needed. The idea now is to resume anticoagulation once appropriate from a surgical standpoint. Not uncommon to wait anywhere from 5-14 days post-op to resume anticoagulation depending on how bloody the procedure was.
My calcium bounces between 11.5 and 13.5. I have surgery to remove the overactive parathyroid glands at the end of next month. It was supposed to be this month but the hospital broke a needed machine the day before it.I will have to looked into the nephrocalcinosis, I haven't heard of it before.
Holy smoking gun batman.Yes I suspect this surgery will help tremendously with your pain. If it was delayed long you should have been on a calcium lowering agent, though likely a little late to start now.