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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Common heritable thrombophilias include factor V Leiden (1 in 20 white Europeans are heterozygous) and prothrombin G20210A (1 in 50 white Europeans are heterozygous), and uncommon ones include protein ...