Thrombophilic risk factors among 16 Lebanese patients with cerebral venous and sinus thrombosis

Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-43

  Otrock, Zaher K ^a   Taher, Ali T ^a   Shamseddeen, Wael A ^a   Mahfouz, Rami A ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Cerebral venous thrombosis; Cohort; Factor V Leiden; Inherited thrombophilia

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BREAST CANCER; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LEBANON; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOPHILIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; FACTOR V; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEBANON; MALE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL; THROMBOPHILIA;

EID: 48449092077     PISSN: 09295305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11239-007-0093-x     Document Type: Article

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