Blood Res.  2018 Mar;53(1):81-83. 10.5045/br.2018.53.1.81.

Pulmonary embolism presenting with acute abdominal pain in a girl with stable ankle fracture and inherited antithrombin deficiency

• Park ES
• Cho JY
• Seo JH
• Lim JY
• Youn HS
• Woo HO

• KMID: 2414370
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5045/br.2018.53.1.81

Abstract

No abstract available.

MeSH Terms

Abdominal Pain*
Ankle Fractures*
Ankle*
Female*
Humans
Pulmonary Embolism*

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Computed tomography (CT) performed in the emergency room showed pulmonary emboli (arrow) in the right main pulmonary artery (A) and consolidation and ground glass opacity in the right lower lobe (B). Multifocal thrombi in the right common iliac vein (arrow) and inferior vena cava are visible in the abdominal CT scan (C). A small amount of thrombus is seen in the right popliteal vein, detected on CT venography (arrow) (D).

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  Fig. 2 Mutation showed a single base substitution of G to A in intron 5 at nt. position (c.1154-14G>A). Subsequently, 12 bp insertion was thought to have created a new splice site to form an unstable protein with 4 extra amino acids (Val-Phe-Leu-Pro). Arrow indicates the intron-exon junction and boxes indicate the mutated nucleotides [8].

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