Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
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This study was conducted to evaluate the complications and bleeding associated with either thrombocytopoenia or prolongation of prothrombin time for ultrasound-guided abdominal paracentesis in the emergency department. ⋯ Bleeding complication of ultrasound-guided abdominal paracentesis is uncommon and appears to be very mild, regardless of preprocedure international normalised ratio or platelet count. Routine correction of prolonged international normalised ratio or thrombocytopoenia before abdominal paracentesis may not be necessary.