High prevalence of hyperhomocysteinemia in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: A pathogenic link with thromboembolic complications?

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 542-545

  Cattaneo, Marco ^a,b   Vecchi, Maurizio ^a   Zighetti, Maddalena L ^a   Saibeni, Simone ^a   Martinelli, Ida ^a   Omodei, Paolo ^a   Mannucci, Pier Mannuccio ^a   De Franchis, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; PYRIDOXINE; VITAMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; BLOOD; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0031593869     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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