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Childhood stroke in a child with familial Mediterranean fever carrying several prothrombotic risk factors.
Lupus - 1 Aug 2009
Aoun E G, Musallam K M, Uthman I, Beydoun A, El-Hajj T, Taher Ali T
Abstract excerpt
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) was recently associated with a hypercoagulable state. However, clinically overt thrombosis remains a rare event limited to patients with other predisposing factors. We herein present a child with FMF who experienced a stroke. An extensive thrombophilia work-up revealed multiple inherited and acquired risk factors. In areas with high prevalence of prothrombotic mutations and in...
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