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The role of hypercoagulability in ischemic colitis.
Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology - 1 Jul 2015
Tsimperidis Achilleas G, Kapsoritakis Andreas N, Linardou Ioanna A, Psychos Athanassios K, Papageorgiou Athanassios A, Vamvakopoulos Nikos C, Kyriakou Despina S, Potamianos Spyros P
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to evaluate the role of thrombophilia-hypercoagulability in ischemic colitis (IC). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Thrombophilia and fibrinogen were evaluated in 56 cases of IC and 44 controls with known predisposing factors but no evidence of IC. Thrombophilic factors tested were: protein C (PC), protein S, antithrombin (AT), resistance to activated protein C (APCR), lupus anticoagulant...
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