Acute Pulmonary Embolism in a Healthy Male With Elevated Lipoprotein(a)

Elevated lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a well-known risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Its role in venous thromboembolism (VTE) is unclear. We present a case of a healthy man presenting with bilateral pulmonary embolism and investigations suggested elevated Lp(a) being the only risk factor. In this...

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Autores principales: Samal, Subhankar, Singhania, Namrata, Bansal, Saurabh, Singh, Anil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Pulmonology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7279681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32528747
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8005
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author Samal, Subhankar
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Singh, Anil
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description Elevated lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a well-known risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Its role in venous thromboembolism (VTE) is unclear. We present a case of a healthy man presenting with bilateral pulmonary embolism and investigations suggested elevated Lp(a) being the only risk factor. In this case report, we would like to emphasize the role of Lp(a) in VTE without any other clear predisposing factors. 
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spelling pubmed-72796812020-06-10 Acute Pulmonary Embolism in a Healthy Male With Elevated Lipoprotein(a) Samal, Subhankar Singhania, Namrata Bansal, Saurabh Singh, Anil Cureus Pulmonology Elevated lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a well-known risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Its role in venous thromboembolism (VTE) is unclear. We present a case of a healthy man presenting with bilateral pulmonary embolism and investigations suggested elevated Lp(a) being the only risk factor. In this case report, we would like to emphasize the role of Lp(a) in VTE without any other clear predisposing factors.  Cureus 2020-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7279681/ /pubmed/32528747 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8005 Text en Copyright © 2020, Samal 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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Acute Pulmonary Embolism in a Healthy Male With Elevated Lipoprotein(a)
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title_fullStr Acute Pulmonary Embolism in a Healthy Male With Elevated Lipoprotein(a)
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title_short Acute Pulmonary Embolism in a Healthy Male With Elevated Lipoprotein(a)
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topic Pulmonology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7279681/
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