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WhiteOwlLion • today at 8:33 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Your liver makes platelets so if your liver function is not optimal, wound healing is harder.

Some people also have rare diseases where they don’t have clotting factors so require a transfusion of clotting factors before surgery for optimal wound healing.


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BigTTYGothGF • today at 8:55 PM

> Your liver makes platelets

Megakaryocytes are primarily bone marrow cells.

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