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Factor V Leiden and fatal pulmonary embolism.
Thrombosis and haemostasis - 1 Mar 1998
Vandenbroucke J P, Bertina R M, Holmes Z R, Spaargaren C, van Krieken J H, Manten B, Reitsma P H
Abstract excerpt
To investigate whether the factor V Leiden mutation increases the risk of fatal pulmonary emboli, we determined the presence of the factor V Leiden mutation in pathology material from two series of autopsies of patients from the Leiden University Hospital, The Netherlands. The first series consisted of consecutive autopsies in which pulmonary emboli were mentioned in the autopsy report; most patients of this...
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