In order to maintain placental function during pregnancy and prevent excessive bleeding during delivery, hypercoagulability is induced. The vascular system becomes more compliant, probably because ...

An 81-year-old woman with a 2-day history of vomiting and abdominal distension attended our hospital. The patient reported no fever, recent travel abroad, or change of bowel habit. She had a 3-year ...

Under normal physiological conditions there is a delicate equilibrium between the pathological states of hypercoagulability and hypocoagulability in the circulating blood. Both inherited and acquired ...

The antiphospholipid syndrome associated with hepatic vein thrombosis has usually been of the primary type; that is, the American Rheumatism Association criteria for the diagnosis of systemic ...

Correspondence to Dr Ronald M Laxer, Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Paediatrics University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ronald.laxer{at}sickkids.ca ...

A new study from a pharmacy benefit manager is casting doubt on the benefits of GLP-1 drugs used for weight loss, finding they are associated with a high cost of care with little benefit beyond ...

Background Despite the necessity, there is no reliable biomarker to predict disease severity and prognosis of patients with COVID-19. The currently published prediction models are not fully applicable ...