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Why Is Colonoscopy Advised To Determine Cause Of Anemia?
Why would a doctor preform a colonoscopy on a 78 year old female with cronic asthma and COPD ? The hospital told me that my mother has fairly severe anemia despite the fact that she has been taking iron supplements for a quite a few months and they need to do this procedure to determine what is causing the anemia. Have I been misinformed?
Thu, 27 Nov 2014
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yes colonoscopy is one if the diagnostic tools to find the. cause of anemia because if internal bleeding. Most often the the patient is not aware if blood in stool we call it occult blood..
first of all test for occult blood is done and if it comes positive then doctors go for the colonoscopy to fin d the cause and site of bleeding...
hope thus is the answer
yes colonoscopy is one if the diagnostic tools to find the. cause of anemia because if internal bleeding. Most often the the patient is not aware if blood in stool we call it occult blood..
first of all test for occult blood is done and if it comes positive then doctors go for the colonoscopy to fin d the cause and site of bleeding...
hope thus is the answer
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