1 month after y90 treatment. Unexpected INR Levels, and what is going on w my liver and bile ducts?! скачать в хорошем качестве

1 month after y90 treatment. Unexpected INR Levels, and what is going on w my liver and bile ducts?!

It’s been 3 weeks since I had my y90 (yttrium 90) procedure. They did my first set of follow up scans a little early since I was up here for my second gen-cis chemotherapy treatment. I was also scheduled to get a port placed, but all good plans are prone to change. I was able to get all my scans done, received my second chemo treatment, and woke up the next morning to go for my port placement. This is when I found out that my blood work from Monday came back with an INR level of 2.3. Normal is 0.9-1.1. So they redrew the level and it had jumped to 4.6. INR is a ratio of your blood clotting factors. At 4.6, I had a very real risk of bleeding out during the procedure. So they started to send me home. The good and bad part about such a complicated medical history is that they want to know why and they want to fix it. Again, if I had been in a car accident, I could easily get a brain bleed or something. So they unexpectedly admitted me to the hospital side of Mayo. I ended up spending the night, I received platelets, fresh frozen plasma, and vitamin k shots. After my plasma my INR came back at 1.5 (this was around 1am this morning). They took blood again around 10, and INR came back at exactly 1.1. So, they were able to reverse the coagulation and get me back to normal. I’ll be shooting another update as soon as I’m cleared for discharge. See you then! Please consider subscribing and sharing this channel with anyone you know that may be going through Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, Crohn’s Disease or Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma. Even someone going through an organ transplant. My goal is to share my experience from a patient’s point of view to help other patients have a better idea of what to expect. I’m not a doctor, I’m a patient going through these events. I may not fully understand the information I’m giving and by no means is anything on this channel to be viewed as medical advice.