Clinical aspects and laboratory problems in hereditary thrombophilia.

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Hereditary thrombophilia is a multifactorial disease which is mono- or plurigenic and its clinical expression is associated with a heterogeneous expression. Factor V (FV) Leiden and FII gene mutations are more frequent than antithrombin, and protein C and S deficiencies. All thrombophilias are not the same. Heterozygous carriers of FV Leiden or FII gene mutation have a weaker risk of venous thrombosis. The mean...

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