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- Published on: 18 April 2016
- Published on: 18 April 2016
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Dear Editor
We read with interest the letter from Khanna et al.[1] in which they reported about young patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and thromboembolic complications. Indeed, hyperhomocysteinaemia is a risk factor not only for venous but also for arterial thrombosis. And increased levels of homocysteine have been reported in patients with IBD.[2]
We found a case very similar to that...
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Dear Editor
We read with interest the study by Meishler et al.[1] We recently saw two patients with ulcerative colitis and one patient with Crohn's disease presenting with thromboembolism. The first patient was a 30 year old doctor , a known case of ulcerative colitis (pancolitis) in remission who presented with sudden onset right hemiparesis. MRI brain suggested an infarct in the territory of middle cerebral...
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