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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Normal patients have to be on blood thinners for three months. That has no impact on his fitness, but contact can lead to bleeding, which can be serious on anticoagulants, therefore playing would not be possible. Once off "blood thinners" he would be completely back to normal.
Also, "blood thinners" is a misnomer. What they do is inhibit a part of the clotting cascade, which leads to proteins in the blood clumping. Blood thinners DO NOT decrease viscosity of the blood.
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Agreed with everything you say about the anticoagulants not affecting exercise capacity, but does anyone truly know the diagnosis. If he had a PE, that would definitely affect his exercise capacity.
I actually saw this young patient who was an athlete, albeit not a high performance one, who presented with exertional shortness of breath and in retrospect calf pain that he thought was a calf strain. He actually turned out to have a PE needing to be on anticoagulants for 3 months.