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High frequency of factor V Leiden in surgical patients with symptomatic venous thromboembolism despite prophylaxis.
Thrombosis and haemostasis - 1 Feb 2007
Baba-Ahmed Mohamed, Le Gal Grégoire, Couturaud Francis, Lacut Karine, Oger Emmanuel, Leroyer Christophe
Abstract excerpt
Among candidate risk factors associated with postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE), the role of factorV Leiden (FVL) mutation remains unclear. We performed a case-control study to assess the potential significance of FVL mutation in postoperative VTE cases despite prophylaxis. We used data from the ongoing case-control "EDITH" study. We extracted 133VTE cases and 144 controls who had undergone either surgery...
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