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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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Autores principales: Pak, Stella, Kilgore, Andrew, Thornhill, Rosanne, Rako, Kyle, Meier, Ali, Pora, Gavriella, Costello, Jillian M, Dee, Christine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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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
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Thornhill, Rosanne
Rako, Kyle
Meier, Ali
Pora, Gavriella
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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.
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Pak, Stella
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Rako, Kyle
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Pora, Gavriella
Costello, Jillian M
Dee, Christine
Unprovoked Pulmonary Embolism in a Young Patient with Marfan Syndrome
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title_short Unprovoked Pulmonary Embolism in a Young Patient with Marfan Syndrome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5669530/
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