Article
A case of protein C deficiency associated with cerebral infarction and obstruction of deep leg and inferior mesenteric veins.
The Japanese journal of psychiatry and neurology - 1 Dec 1993
Tsuda M, Miyazaki M, Takada T, Uda Y, Kuzuhara S
Abstract excerpt
Protein C, a vitamin K-dependent protein, is a blood coagulation inhibitor. Its deficiency causes systemic thrombosis. A 31-year-old woman developed cerebral infarction followed by late psychomotor seizures, and thrombosis in the inferior mesenteric vein and bilateral crural veins. Her parents were first cousins. Her mother died of cerebral thrombosis in her 30's. Her elder brother died of suspected purpura...
Topics
- Adult
- Blood Coagulation Tests
- Cerebral Infarction
- Colon, Sigmoid
- Consanguinity
- Female
- Humans
- Ischemia
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Male
- Mesenteric Vascular Occlusion