Journal article
Ethnic Differences in Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland), Vol.19(3), pp.147-151
01/01/2005
DOI: 10.1159/000083247
PMID: 15644626
Abstract
Background: Cerebral venous thromboses (CVT) with distinct clinical presentations have been shown worldwide. However, there is little information regarding race-ethnic differences in this disease. Methods: We prospectively studied 50 CVT patients from Brazil, comparing clinical and laboratory data among white (W) and African-Brazilian (AB) patients. Results: Seventy percent of the patients were female, 26 W and 23 AB, mean age 34.7 years. Multiple sinus CVT, deep CVT and worse outcome were significantly more frequent in AB than in W patients. There was a trend towards a higher frequency of factor V Leiden and prothrombin mutation in W than in AB, and of protein C deficiency in AB. Conclusions: CVT was more severe in AB patients than in W patients. Race-ethnic differences may account for the heterogeneous distribution of inherited thrombophilia in this series.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Ethnic Differences in Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
- Creators
- Érica Cristina Sá de CamargoAyrton Roberto MassaroLuiz Alberto Bacheschi - University RadiologyÉlbio Antônio D’Amico - Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São PauloPaula Ribeiro Villaça - Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São PauloRogerio Pastore Bassitt - Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São PauloSandra Fátima Gualandro - Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São PauloIsrael Bendit - Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São PauloMilberto Scaff
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland), Vol.19(3), pp.147-151
- DOI
- 10.1159/000083247
- PMID
- 15644626
- ISSN
- 1015-9770
- eISSN
- 1421-9786
- Number of pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2005
- Academic Unit
- Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984843606802771
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