Hypercoagulability

Question 1

True/False.

Malignancy can be associated with a chronic form of DIC.

Answer 1

True.

Question 2

What types of cancers are especially high-risk for VTE and may warrant anticoagulation regardless of clot status?

Answer 2

Adenocarcinomas

Question 3

You diagnose PE in a patient with a pulmonary adenocarcinoma. You treat her with 3 months of therapeutic anticoagulation. 3 months later, she is still being managed for her malignancy, and she presents with a superficial clot in her right upper extremity. What do you do?

Answer 3

Start indefinite anticoagulation

Patient is still hypercoagulable.