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Acquired antithrombin type IIb deficiency after liver transplantation: a case report.
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons - 1 May 2012
Hougardy L, Stephenne X, Reding R, Sokal E, Smets F, Lambert C, Hermans C
Abstract excerpt
A 3-year-old girl with multifocal hepatoblastoma was referred to our clinic for living-donor liver transplantation, the patient's father being the donor. Pretransplant evaluation revealed that the father presented partial asymptomatic antithrombin (AT) deficiency, with no inherited AT deficiency found in the girl. The genetic testing showed an AT type IIb deficiency responsible for a defect in the heparin-binding...
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