Hypodysfibrinogenemia causing mild bleeding and thrombotic complications in a compound heterozygote of AαIVS4+IG>T mutation and Aα4841 delC truncation (AαPerth)

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 770-772

  Jayo, Asier ^a   Arnold, Erin ^b   González Manchón, Consuelo ^a   Green, David ^c   Lord, Susan T ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATROXOBIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 13; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; FIBRINOGEN; GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTHROMBIN; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; THROMBIN; THROMBOPLASTIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERY STEAL SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLEEDING TENDENCY; CAUCASIAN; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH TRAUMA; CRYOPRECIPITATE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DYSFIBRINOGENEMIA; FEMALE; FINGER AMPUTATION; GANGRENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPODYSFIBRINOGENEMIA; HYPOFIBRINOGENEMIA; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENORRHAGIA; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS, INHERITED; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGENS, ABNORMAL; GENETIC SCREENING; HAND INJURIES; HEMORRHAGE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MENORRHAGIA; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 64849113863     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH08-11-0777     Document Type: Article

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