PMID: 2125199Nov 1, 1990Paper

Venous thrombosis disclosing Marchiafava-Micheli disease

Archives des maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux
E FerrariP Morand

Abstract

It is established practice in patients with thromboembolic disease without the classical predisposing factors to search for general causes and abnormalities of blood clotting. The authors report a case of paroxysmal nocturnal hematuria or the Marchiafava-Micheli syndrome, a rare but classical cause of venous thrombosis. In this patient, the hemopathy presented with venous thrombosis.

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