Thrombophilia in pregnancy: Table 1

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Thrombophilia can be defined as a predisposition to thrombosis. Abnormalities in haemostasis that are associated with clinical thrombophilia include heritable defects, such as mutations in the genes encoding the natural anticoagulants antithrombin, protein C, and protein S, or clotting factors prothrombin and factor V, and acquired defects, such as antiphospholipids. Women with thrombophilic defects have been...

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