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Case report: perioperative use of protein c concentrate for protein C deficiency in THA.
Clinical orthopaedics and related research - 1 Jul 2010
Thakkar Savyasachi C, Streiff Michael B, Bruley Duane F, Mears Simon C
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BACKGROUND: Perioperative management of patients with heterozygous protein C deficiency is challenging because of the competing risks of bleeding and recurrent thrombosis. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report the case of a 74-year-old man with protein C deficiency and heterozygous prothrombin G20210A gene mutation who had a successful left THA with perioperative administration of human zymogen protein C concentrate in...
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