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Ischaemic stroke with multi-focal venous and arterial thrombosis due to hyperhomocysteinemia: anabolic androgenic steroid use and MTHFR c.667 C > T variant - a case report.
BMC neurology - 26 Apr 2023
Chen Jpk, Rees A, Coughlan C H, Goodison W, Murphy E, Chandratheva A
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BACKGROUND: Severely elevated serum homocysteine is a rare cause of ischaemic stroke and extra-cranial arterial and venous thrombosis. Several factors can lead to mild elevation of homocysteine including dietary folate and B12 deficiency, and genetic variants of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) enzyme. The use of Anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) is under-reported, but increasingly linked to...
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