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Cerebral vein thrombosis and mild hyperhomocysteinemia: three new cases.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 Dec 2002
Rigamonti A, Carriero M R, Boncoraglio G, Leone M, Bussone G
Abstract excerpt
Mild hyperhomocysteinemia is an established risk factor for deep vein thrombosis. We report three patients with cerebral vein thrombosis (CVT) in which the only risk factor we were able to identify was increased blood homocysteine levels and the C677T polymorphism in both alleles of the methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase MTHFR gene. We suggest that hyperhomocysteinemia should also be a risk factor for CVT....
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