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What would cause black blood in a dialysis patient?

Submitted: 19 days and 10 hours ago.
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What would cause blood to turn black during dialysis?

Posted by Dr. R. Bora 19 days and 10 hours ago.

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Did you mean the blood in your femoral vein turning black?

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Yes, during dialysis my husband's blood turned black and they told him to come back tomorrow. What would cause this?

Edited by XXXXXXXXXXXXX on 11/2/2009 at 7:39 PM

Posted by Dr. R. Bora 19 days and 10 hours ago.

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There was probably some internal thrombus inside the blood vessel. This is quite common during dialysis and is nothing very serious. Your doctors are probaby already giving you medicines (anti thrombotics) to prevent blood clot formation.

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Could this have happened by a falling injury?

Posted by Dr. R. Bora 19 days and 10 hours ago.

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I did not understand that....Did he fall down somewhere and injure himself? Is he bleeding or having bruises?

19 days and 9 hours ago.

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He slid down a 10' imbankment into the river Saturday while fishing and bruised his back and legs. The inserts for his dialysis are in his chest. Do you think this would've caused the thrombis?

Posted by Dr. R. Bora 19 days and 9 hours ago.

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So, where did you see the black blood coming from?

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Into the blood pump line during dialysis this morning.

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I think the black blood was probably due to the fall. But dialysis patients do have tendency to blood clot formation. So, it could be due to both the factors acting together.

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