Successful living donor kidney transplantation in a patient with prothrombin gene mutation: Case report and literature review

We present a patient with known prothrombin gene mutation and a history of prior vascular events, who underwent living donor kidney transplantation. Given the presumed elevated risk of complication from known prothrombin mutation, clinical management was directed towards optimizing living donor allo...

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Autores principales: Shen, Edward, Uemura, Tadahiro, Kadry, Zakiyah, Sathishkumar, Subramanian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24574607
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9185.125718
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Sumario:We present a patient with known prothrombin gene mutation and a history of prior vascular events, who underwent living donor kidney transplantation. Given the presumed elevated risk of complication from known prothrombin mutation, clinical management was directed towards optimizing living donor allograft function.

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