Abstract:Background The role of prothrombotic gene variants as risk factors for venous thrombotic diseases is controversial and the ordering of tests for thrombophilia in the clinical context is scarcerly respective of evidence-based data. Methods We studied FVL, FVR2, FII G20210A, MTHFR C677T and A1298C, beta-fibrinogen -455 G>A, FXIII V34L, HPA-1 L33P variants and PAI-1 4G/5G alleles in: 343 patients with deep vein thrombosis (DVT), 164 with pulmonary embolism (PE), 126 with superficial vein thrombosis (SVT), 118 … Show more
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