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Unprovoked Pulmonary Embolism in a Young Patient with Marfan Syndrome
Marfan syndrome is a rare connective tissue disorder with a prevalence of approximately 2 to 3 per 10,000 individuals. There have been some reports of young patients with Marfan syndrome developing arteriovenous thromboembolism. These events were unprovoked and recurrent. Owing to its rarity, hyperc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5669530/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29142803 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1655 |
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author | Pak, Stella Kilgore, Andrew Thornhill, Rosanne Rako, Kyle Meier, Ali Pora, Gavriella Costello, Jillian M Dee, Christine |
author_facet | Pak, Stella Kilgore, Andrew Thornhill, Rosanne Rako, Kyle Meier, Ali Pora, Gavriella Costello, Jillian M Dee, Christine |
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description | Marfan syndrome is a rare connective tissue disorder with a prevalence of approximately 2 to 3 per 10,000 individuals. There have been some reports of young patients with Marfan syndrome developing arteriovenous thromboembolism. These events were unprovoked and recurrent. Owing to its rarity, hypercoagulopathy and other metabolic derangement in patients with Marfan syndrome remains largely unknown. Herein, we report a case of a young man with Marfan syndrome who had myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism. We hope that this case adds to the scant body of knowledge about this patient population. |
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spelling | pubmed-56695302017-11-15 Unprovoked Pulmonary Embolism in a Young Patient with Marfan Syndrome Pak, Stella Kilgore, Andrew Thornhill, Rosanne Rako, Kyle Meier, Ali Pora, Gavriella Costello, Jillian M Dee, Christine Cureus Internal Medicine Marfan syndrome is a rare connective tissue disorder with a prevalence of approximately 2 to 3 per 10,000 individuals. There have been some reports of young patients with Marfan syndrome developing arteriovenous thromboembolism. These events were unprovoked and recurrent. Owing to its rarity, hypercoagulopathy and other metabolic derangement in patients with Marfan syndrome remains largely unknown. Herein, we report a case of a young man with Marfan syndrome who had myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism. We hope that this case adds to the scant body of knowledge about this patient population. Cureus 2017-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5669530/ /pubmed/29142803 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1655 Text en Copyright © 2017, Pak et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Pak, Stella Kilgore, Andrew Thornhill, Rosanne Rako, Kyle Meier, Ali Pora, Gavriella Costello, Jillian M Dee, Christine Unprovoked Pulmonary Embolism in a Young Patient with Marfan Syndrome |
title | Unprovoked Pulmonary Embolism in a Young Patient with Marfan Syndrome |
title_full | Unprovoked Pulmonary Embolism in a Young Patient with Marfan Syndrome |
title_fullStr | Unprovoked Pulmonary Embolism in a Young Patient with Marfan Syndrome |
title_full_unstemmed | Unprovoked Pulmonary Embolism in a Young Patient with Marfan Syndrome |
title_short | Unprovoked Pulmonary Embolism in a Young Patient with Marfan Syndrome |
title_sort | unprovoked pulmonary embolism in a young patient with marfan syndrome |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5669530/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29142803 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1655 |
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