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Clinical features of thrombophilia in families with gene defects in protein C or protein S combined with factor V Leiden.
Blood coagulation & fibrinolysis : an international journal in haemostasis and thrombosis - 1 Jan 1998
Mustafa S, Mannhalter C, Rintelen C, Kyrle P A, Knöbl P, Lechner K, Pabinger I
Abstract excerpt
Twenty-nine clinically well-characterized, symptomatic index patients, 15 with protein C and 14 with protein S deficiency, in whom the genetic defect had been identified, were investigated for the presence of factor V Leiden. In six of 15 (40%) propositi with protein C and four of 14 (29%) with protein S deficiency, factor V Leiden was present. The age at first thrombosis was significantly lower (P < 0.001) in...
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