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In a patient with a heterozygous prothrombin gene mutation who has COVID with minimal symptoms, do you recommend prophylactic and/or therapeutic anticoagulation?

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Hematology · University of Wisconsin

If the patient has no history of VTE, I would not recommend any anticoagulant treatment.

Heterozygous prothrombin G20210A polymorphism is a relatively weak risk factor for VTE in comparison to antithrombin, protein C, or protein S deficiency, and in general, is not a finding that should guide decisi...

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