Acute myocardial infarction with large bilateral intracoronary thrombi in a young patient with the prothrombin 20210 G- > A mutation

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 427-430

  De Winter, Robbert J ^a   Middeldorp, Saskia ^b   Gaffar, Sharda ^b   Koch, Karel T ^b   Piek, Jan J ^b   Levi, Marcel ^b   Reitsma, Pieter H ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; GUANINE; PROTHROMBIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NUCLEOTIDE MAPPING; PEDIGREE; PROTHROMBIN; THROMBOPHILIA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031827348     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199808)44:4<427::AID-CCD15>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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