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A Novel Method: Super-selective Adrenal Venous Sampling
Published on: September 15, 2017
[Adrenal vein thrombosis during pregnancy]
C Schmitt1, M-P Debord, C Grange
1Service de gynécologie obstétrique, centre hospitalier Lyon Sud, 165, chemin du Grand-Revoyet, 69495 Pierre-Bénite cedex, France.
Abstract:
Pregnancy represents an inner transitional prothrombotic state; that is why other coagulation abnormalities may be revealed during this time. Factor V Leiden mutation is the most frequent inherited thrombophilia in the general population. We report the case of a patient by whom this mutation has been revealed during pregnancy by an adrenal vein thrombosis. Through this case, we will review the physiopathology of resistance to activated protein C and its consequences.
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