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Ischaemic stroke with multi-focal venous and arterial thrombosis due to hyperhomocysteinemia: anabolic androgenic steroid use and MTHFR c.667C>T variant.
2023-03-01
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<h4>Background: </h4> 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. Use of Anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) is under reported, but increasingly linked to i...
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- e72d1d6c-5fe2-54b9-8854-bc3f671db4e7
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2560988/v1
