Article
Congenital thrombophilia among patients with venous thromboembolism.
Blood coagulation & fibrinolysis : an international journal in haemostasis and thrombosis - 1 Dec 1992
Melissari E, Monte G, Lindo V S, Pemberton K D, Wilson N V, Edmondson R, Das S, Kakkar V V
Abstract excerpt
During a 3-year period we studied 393 adult patients (382 of whom were unrelated) with a history of acute venous thromboembolism. A congenital deficiency state known to predispose to thrombosis was found in 27.2%. Of these, most were due to deficiencies of protein C (9.2%), protein S (7.6%), anti...
Topics
- Acute Disease
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Afibrinogenemia
- Aged
- Antithrombin III Deficiency
- Blood Coagulation Factors
- Blood Coagulation Tests
- Disease Susceptibility
- Female
- Fibrinolysis
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Kininogens
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Plasminogen
- Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1