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Why does "anticoagulation therapy for pulmonary embolism" have no bleeding risk for "people with vasculitis with petechiae"?

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Not true: Any individual who receives an anticoagulant will also carry a risk of bleeding. The presence of vasculitis does not change that.

Dr Ferguson and another doctor agreed

Answered 10/26/2018

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