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A 73 year old woman suffers a severe cerebral hemorrhageafter a minoe trauma. Blood work reveals that her clotting ablity is imparied. Disease of which abdominal organ may contriute to this ?
My answer is the spleen
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I believe this would be the liver, where clotting factors are produced. The spleen is more responsible for immunity. You can double check to be sure.
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