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Arterial thrombosis and acute myocardial infarction with angiographically normal coronary arteries in a woman heterozygous for both factor V Leiden and prothrombin mutation.
Revista portuguesa de cardiologia : orgao oficial da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia = Portuguese journal of cardiology : an official journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology - 1 Sept 2011
Gaspar João, Benchimol Cláudio, Gadelha Telma, Penna Guilherme Loures
Abstract excerpt
Thirteen years after her last thrombotic event, anticoagulation was discontinued in a patient with combined thrombophilia involving mutation in factor V and G20210A polymorphism of the prothrombin gene. The only history was of arterial thrombosis. Three months later she presented a transmural myocardial infarction caused by coronary thrombosis.
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