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Gender-related differences in the outcome of patients with venous thromboembolism and thrombophilia.
Thrombosis research - 1 Mar 2017
Tzoran Inna, Papadakis Emmanouil, Brenner Benjamin, Valle Reina, López-Jiménez Luciano, García-Bragado Fernando, Riera-Mestre Antoni, Villalobos Aurora, Quintavalla Roberto, Monreal Manuel
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BACKGROUND: In patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) and factor V Leiden (FVL) or prothrombin 20210G-A mutation (PTM), the influence of gender on outcome has not been consistently studied. METHODS: We used the RIETE (Registro Informatizado Enfermedad TromboEmbolica) database to assess the existence of gender differences in the rate of VTE recurrences (deep vein thrombosis [DVT] or pulmonary embolism [PE]) or...
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