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Gurkan Acar1, Abdullah Dogan, Ahmet Altinbas
1Department of Cardiology, Sevket Demirel Heart Center, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey. gurkandracar@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Protein C and protein S deficiencies may uncommonly be responsible for coronary arterial thrombosis. We report a young woman with recurrent acute stent thrombosis due to the deficiency of protein C and S. After coronary stenting, stent thrombosis occurred two times despite aggressive antiplatelet therapy, including aspirin, clopidogrel and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor. This report suggests that the deficiency of protein C and S should be born in mind in a young patient with recurrent thrombotic events, and that anticoagulants in addition to antiplatelet agents considered in the presence of their deficiency.
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