Obstetric implications of activated protein C resistance and factor V Leiden mutation.

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An increasing number of reports have focused on activated protein C resistance (APCR) as it has been shown not only to be the most common genetic factor predisposing patients to thromboembolic disease but the most common identifiable cause overall. More than 90 percent of the cases of APCR are caused by the factor V Leiden mutation, in which a guanine to adenine substitution in the factor V gene at nucleotide...

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