Hyperhomocysteinemia – A Death Warrant in Young

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MANISH N MEHTA
AMI TRIVEDI
SNEHA VADHVANA
ARJUN CHANDRASEKHARAN
JEMIMA BHASKAR

Abstract

Patient with atherosclerotic narrowing of blood vessels develop thrombotic occlusion and present clinically with cerebrovascular
accidents, coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease and peripheral vascular disease, with the main risk factors for
atherosclerosis being diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, systemic hypertension, advanced age, male sex, obesity and smoking. But
there are many other causes of arterial occlusion in the young, such as nonatherosclerotic angiopathies, thrombophilias, genetic
disorders, inflammatory and infectious vasculitis. This is a case where thrombotic occlusion has occurred in the coronary and
cerebral circulation in a young patient due to thrombophilia.

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MANISH N MEHTA, AMI TRIVEDI, SNEHA VADHVANA, ARJUN CHANDRASEKHARAN, & JEMIMA BHASKAR. (2020). Hyperhomocysteinemia – A Death Warrant in Young. Indian Journal Of Clinical Practice, 31(2), 161–163. Retrieved from https://ojs.ijcp.in/IJCP/article/view/900
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