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Successful Living-Related Renal Allograft in a Recipient With Factor V Leiden Deficiency: A Case Report.
Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - 1 Feb 2017
Florou Evangelia, Koukoulaki Maria, Theodoros Theodoridis, Kalatzis Vasileios, Vougas Vasileios, Stamataki Elissavet, Kokkinou Vasiliki Christopoulou, Kostakis Alkiviadis, Drakopoulos Spiros
Abstract excerpt
Thrombophilia due to activated protein C resistance (Leiden mutation) is the most common inherited thrombophilic disorder with 5% incidence in whites. Renal transplant of these patients entails a risk of vascular thrombosis soon after the transplant; and acute rejection episodes and graft loss within the first year. We present a case of a successful living-related renal transplant in man with a recent history of...
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