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47 YR OLD WOMEN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS IS FOUND TO HAVE PLATELET COUNT OF 700,000 ON ROUTINE CBC WHICH IS TRUE?

HER ARTHRITIS IS ACTIVE

SHE IS LIKELY TO DEVELOP STROKE

SHE SHOULD RECIEVE ANTICOAGULANT

SHE PROPABLY HAS MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER

SHE PROBABLY HAS OCCULT MALAGNANCY WHICH SHOULD B EVALUATED

  #2

It's an active RA (Also, active RA has normocytic, normochromatic anemia)


  #3

Active disease usually has thrombocytosis and is realted to disease activity




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