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What Causes Blood In Urine?
39 y/o female on coumadin for a positive lupus anticoagulant and anticardiolipin . My INR was 2.7 on Friday I have had my period for one week now and this morning when I woke up and urinated there was blood in my urine, and I'm fairly sure it wasn't from my period. What should I do?
Fri, 25 Jul 2014
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as per your statement your inr is high...and you are positive for both ato immune disease...lupus can affect kidneys causing renal problems like nephritis or auto immune nephritis..you should go to a medical specialist to do your tests like1 full blood count 2 prothrombin time and bleeding time 3 protien c and s with liver function test 4 ana profile with ra factor....these test might help you to find the actual cause...good luck
as per your statement your inr is high...and you are positive for both ato immune disease...lupus can affect kidneys causing renal problems like nephritis or auto immune nephritis..you should go to a medical specialist to do your tests like1 full blood count 2 prothrombin time and bleeding time 3 protien c and s with liver function test 4 ana profile with ra factor....these test might help you to find the actual cause...good luck
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