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Sickle Cell Trait: Is There an Increased VTE Risk in Pregnancy and the Postpartum?

Blacks are purported to have a higher venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk than whites. We hypothesized that this might be due, in part, to the greater presence of sickle cell trait (SCT) among blacks. We investigated whether the presence of SCT resulted in a higher VTE incidence in a population predis...

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Autores principales: Pintova, Sofya, Cohen, Hillel W., Billett, Henny H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3661437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23717554
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064141