Unsuspected mesenteric vein thrombosis in a patient with a hereditary bleeding disorder

Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 599-600

  Sturm, Wolfgang ^a,b   Gaenzer, Hannes ^a   Heininger Rothbucher, Dorothea ^a   Neumayr, Günther ^a   Kirchmair, Rudolf ^a   Patsch, Josef ^a   Weiss, Günter ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Hereditary hemorrhagic teleangiectasia; Superior mesenteric vein thrombosis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFARCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MESENTERIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS, INHERITED; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MESENTERIC VASCULAR OCCLUSION; MESENTERIC VEINS; MIDDLE AGED; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0042332048     PISSN: 09575235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001721-200309000-00013     Document Type: Article

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