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Ann Med Res. 2002; 9(3): 215-218


Genetic Risk Factors In Pulmonary Thromboemboli (Reports of Five Cases)

Özkan Kızkın*, S. Savaş Hacıevliyagil*, Levent Cem Mutlu*, Hakan Günen*, Zeki Yıldırım*

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Abstract


 

Pulmonary thromboembolus is a disease with high mortality and morbidity. In addition to well known and

frequent risk factors, there are some rare congenital predisposing factors. In five of 43 patients (11.6%) diagnosed

as pulmonary embolus between 1998 and 2001 in our clinic we detected a genetic risk factor for venous

thromboemboli. Except one patient, there were no formerly known genetic risk factor. Due to our results, it can

be proposed that the genetical predisposition should be searched in patients who developed venous

thromboemboli without any known risk factor. We discussed 3 patients with antiphospholipid syndrome, one

patient with protein C deficiency and one patient with protein S deficiency and activated protein C resistance

(APC-R), in total 5 cases, with regard to current literature.

Keywords: Antiphospholipid Syndrome, Protein C Deficency, Protein S Deficency, Activated C Resistance,

Pulmonary Thromboemboli






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