“…Patients present with a constellation of symptoms, including fever, easily bruised skin, purpura, sore throat, paleness, nosebleeds, petechaie, and perhaps jaundice. 298,299 The use of blood tests to monitor for blood dyscrasias is controversial. 300 In an editorial in 2000, 301 Fraunfelder and Bagby weigh the pros and cons of doing routine, periodic blood tests on patients taking oral CAIs, hopefully to catch early any abnormalities and to be able to cease the drug and treat the reversible cases.…”