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Any Solution For Colon Polyp In A Patient With 7 Stents Whose Been On Plavix For 9 Yrs?
I have been on Plavix for 9 years, I have 7 stents one was in the Widowmaker, I have a pea size polyp in my colon and they won't remove it or do a biopsy because of the plavix, the cardio dept of the VA says I could die by taking me off the plavix for 10 days(required) and also if they try to operate I could bleed to death....what if the truth...is there a solution to this problem...
Wed, 19 Feb 2014
If it is pedunculated polyp it can be only be tightly ligated and left it alone to desicate due to strangulation and there will be no chance of bleeding.
Secondly if it is asymptomatic it should be left as it is as all SUCH lesions or polyps are not malignant but are prone to turn malignant. So need is to keep these type polyps under observation.
DR.J. TICKU
Secondly if it is asymptomatic it should be left as it is as all SUCH lesions or polyps are not malignant but are prone to turn malignant. So need is to keep these type polyps under observation.
DR.J. TICKU
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