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Do inherited hypercoagulable states play a role in thrombotic events affecting kidney/pancreas transplant recipients?
Clinical transplantation - 1 Jan 2000
Adrogué Horacio E, Matas Arthur J, McGlennon R C, Key Nigel S, Gruessner Angelika, Gruessner Rainer W, Humar Abhinav, Sutherland David E R, Kandaswamy Raja
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BACKGROUND: Pancreas graft thrombosis remains the leading non-immunologic cause of graft loss after pancreas transplantation. We studied the role of hypercoagulable states (HCS) in pancreas graft thrombosis (pthx). METHODS: Between January 1, 1994, and January 1, 2003, 131 pancreas transplant recipients experienced a pthx (n = 67) or other thrombotic events. Fifty-six recipients consented to have their blood...
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