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Genetic risk factors of thrombophilia in ischaemic childhood stroke of cardiac origin. A prospective ESPED survey.
European journal of pediatrics - 1 Dec 1999
Sträter R, Vielhaber H, Kassenböhmer R, von Kries R, Göbel U, Nowak-Göttl U
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Ischaemic stroke is a rare event in childhood. In approximately one-fourth of cases an underlying cardiac disease can be detected. We investigated the importance of genetic risk factors of venous thromboembolism in childhood or stroke in adulthood as risk factors for ischaemic stroke in children in a multicentre survey focusing on patients with a cardiac disease. 38 of 162 white infants and children...
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