[Perioperative management of a patient with factor V Leiden mutation].

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Although the factor V Leiden mutation had not been reported in Japan, we experienced the perioperative management of a patient with factor V Leiden mutation. A 38-year-old Caucasian woman with factor V Leiden heterozygote underwent right lobectomy for thyroid tumor under general anesthesia. The postoperative course was uneventful. Heterozygosity increases risk of venous thrombosis sevenfold. A homozygote has a...

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