Four cases of venous thrombosis in athletes with silent hereditary defects of the protein C system

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 463-464

  De Caterina, Maurizio ^a,c   Grimaldi, Ernesto ^a   Passaretti, Maria ^a   Ruocco, Aldo ^a   Selvetella, Lucio ^a   Cavallaro, Vincenzo ^a   Di Biase, Sebastiano ^b   Scopacasa, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b MeriGen Molecular Biology Laboratory   (Italy)

^c FEDERICO II UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; ANTITHROMBIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; HOMOCYSTEINE; PROTEIN C;

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C RESISTANCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CASE REPORT; CYANOSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; EXERCISE; FEMORAL VEIN; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MALE; PAIN; POPLITEAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN C DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN DEFECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOPHILIA;

ADULT; EXERCISE; EXERTION; FACTOR V; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEIN C; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPORTS; THROMBOSIS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 23744494653     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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