If you cut your finger or bruise your leg, your body acts to stop the bleeding. Blood cells called platelets and blood proteins called clotting factors work together to form a clot. Once the bleeding ...

Thrombophilia is a condition in which there’s an imbalance in naturally occurring blood-clotting proteins, or clotting factors. This can put you at risk of developing blood clots. Clotting of the ...

If you’re pregnant, you may be at an elevated risk for developing blood clots that could cause dangerous complications. Here’s what you need to know about thrombophilia in pregnancy. Thrombophilia is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ASH panel recommends thrombophilia testing for multiple patient populations. Indefinite anticoagulant treatment ...

We report a case of juvenile thrombophilia associated with a substitution of leucine for arginine at position 338 (R338L) in the factor IX gene (factor IX–R338L). The level of the mutant factor IX ...

Thrombophilic patients who have had an ischemic stroke and have a patent foramen ovale (PFO) benefit from having the PFO closed, a new study suggests. "To the best of our knowledge, this is the ...