title: How to heal a bruise: For Patients and Families living with Immune Thrombocytopenia
author:  Meghan Brewster 
description: She is the founder of Manuscrapped [dot] com; an emerging writers blog. She is also the founder of the online medical journal itp&amp;me[dot]com; for patients of the rare autoimmune disorder ITP. Meghan currently lives on the Far South Coast of New South Wales. She supports her fiction by working part time for an Australian online business development company.
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  J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9, 1002; doi:10.3390/jcm9041002 
  www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm 
  Review 
  New Paradigms of Extended Thromboprophylaxis in 
  Medically Ill Patients 
  Kira MacDougall 1 and Alex C Spyropoulos 2,3,* 
  1 Department of Internal Medicine, Northwell Health at Staten Island University Hospital,  
  Staten Island, NY 10305, USA; kmacdougall1@northwell.edu 
  2 Center for Health Innovations and Outcomes Research, The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and 
  Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA 
  3 Department of Medicine, Anticoagulation and Clinical Thrombosis Services, Northwell Health at Lenox 
  Hill Hospital, 130 E 77th St., New York, NY 10075, USA 
  * Correspondence: aspyropoul@northwell.edu;  
  Tel.: +01-(212)-434-6776; Fax: +01-(212)-434-6781; Cell: +01-(914)-319-5553 
  Received: 18 February 2020; Accepted: 24 March 2020; Published: 2 April 2020 
  Abstract: Extended thromboprophylaxis given to medically ill patients for up to 4