Elevated lipoprotein(a) in a newborn with thrombosis and a family history of dyslipidemia.

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This paper reports a rare case of elevated lipoproteinemia(a) that evolved into thrombosis during the neonatal period. During the first days of life, the patient presented with an intracardiac thrombus, pulmonary thromboembolism and a hemorrhagic stroke. Initially, the results of the blood tests performed to screen for thrombophilic diseases were normal for the patient's age. The maternal dyslipidemia and the...

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