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Are there any situations you would recommend prophylactic anticoagulation for a patient with Factor V heterozygosity?

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Hematology · University of Wisconsin

In short, no. Thrombotic risk is a complex variable with many contributing components. The presence of a single FVL allele, while it appears to increase the risk somewhat, is not sufficiently predictive of overall risk to provide a basis for administering prophylactic anticoagulation in a clinical s...

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