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A person comes into the doctors complaining about her heart. The doctors check blood pressure, x-rays,...

A person comes into the doctors complaining about her heart. The doctors check blood pressure, x-rays, and blood work. They noticed in the patient's blood work that the viscosity of their blood was high. What could be a cause of a high viscosity? What could the patient potentially have? What does it compromise? Note that kidney function test came back normal.

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High blood viscosity may be due to Hyperviscosity syndrome.

Hyperviscosity is a clinical condition where the blood viscosity is increased.Hyperviscosity causes due to Leukemias,polycythemia,multiple myeloma etc.

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