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How do doctors measure how thin my blood is?

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Viscosity?: Viscosity isn't typically as important for most patients, compared to "content", such as the number of red blood cells, platelets, etc.

Answered 3/7/2012

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Thinning Agent???: I assume that you are referring to the use of a "blood thinner", such as Coumadin (warfarin). In this case, we do a blood test called the prothrombin time (pt). If you are using Heparin as a blood thinner, we would check your activated partial thromboplastin time (aptt). I hope this is what you were referring to?

Answered 9/28/2016

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