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Prothrombin gene G20210A mutation and elevated anticardiolipin antibodies in a patient with combined portal-mesenteric vein thrombosis.
Intensive care medicine - 1 Oct 2000
Friederich P, Putensen C, Stüber F
Abstract excerpt
A 29-year-old man was admitted to the ICU after emergency laparotomy for portal-mesenteric vein thrombosis. Under continuous intravenous heparin therapy the portal-mesenteric shunt occluded on the first postoperative day. After thrombectomy the heparin dose was increased, and the patient remained free of symptoms (partial thromboplastin time 53 s). Two days later abdominal distension developed concomitantly with...
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