We describe a 7-day-old infant who presented with extensive cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) and was found to be homozygous for the prothrombin G20210A gene mutation. No other known risk ...

Background: ABO blood type locus has been reported to be an important genetic determinant of venous and arterial thrombosis in genome-wide association studies. We tested the hypothesis that ABO blood ...

Findings from two Danish studies have shown that ABO blood type, both alone and in combination with the presence of factor V and prothrombin mutations, is associated with increases in risk for venous ...

In a systematic review of nine case–control studies that evaluated the risk of pregnancy-related VTE in women with an inherited thrombophilia but not necessarily a family history of VTE, the highest ...

The field of thrombosis is at the forefront of personalized healthcare. Thrombophilia refers to hereditary conditions that predispose patients to the risk of thromboembolism. [13] As early as 1994, ...

A 7-day-old infant Caucasian girl was referred to our institution for acute respiratory distress requiring intubation. She was a full-term infant with a birth weight of 2900 g. The mother reported no ...

The annual incidence of venous thrombosis, one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity, increases from 1 per 100,000 during childhood to 1 per 100 in old age. 1 In this article we will ...

The non-O ABO blood type is the most important risk factor for venous thromboembolism (blood clots in veins), making up 20 percent of attributable risk for the condition, according to a new study. The ...