Venous intestinal ischemia is a relatively rare disease, which has some predisposing factor up to 80 % of cases. These factors may be temporary or permanent. Cancer, immobilization, trauma, intraabdominal infections, or oral contraceptives are temporary factors. Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and hypercoagulability states as factor V Leiden, G20210A mutation in prothrombin gene, C677T meth...

ORIGINAL ARTICLE Prevalence of Three Prothrombotic Polymorphisms: Factor V G1691A, Factor II G20210A and Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (MTHFR) C 677T in Argentina Valeria Genoud1, Mercedes Castañon1, Joyce Annichino-Bizzacchi2, Jorge Korin1 and Lucı́a Kordich1 on behalf of the Grupo Cooperativo Argentino de Hemostasia y Trombosis 1Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Dpto. Quı́mica Bio...

A 55-year-old, previously healthy woman, presented with frequent headaches. She had no neurological disturbances, but had a positive family history; her father died from stroke. Magnetic resonance imaging showed brain infarction; therefore detailed diagnostic evaluation of thrombophilia markers and genetic testing were performed. The patient was found to be homozy- gous for the C677T mutation o...

Ischemic stroke is a heterogeneous multifactorial disease that is affected by several genetic mutations and environmental factors. Various polymorphisms and mutations have been described as risk factors for stroke and they include angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) genotype, factor V Leiden, prothrombin G20210A, methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), human platelet antigen type 1, facto...