When blood clots too much, doctors prescribe anticoagulants or blood thinners. However, a strange side effect of this treatment was first documented in 1970. Doctors warned about rebound hypercoagulation resulting in priapism. The sudden discontinuation of certain anticoagulants induces this boomerang condition and results in platelets spontaneously aggregating in the penis, causing priapism.

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