Heritable thrombophilia Possible heritable component Acquired risk factors for venous thrombosis Antithrombin deficiency High factor VIII/VWF Increasing age (over 35 in pregnancy) Protein C deficiency High factor IX Pregnancy Protein…
© Springer-Verlag London 2015Hannah Cohen and Patrick O’Brien (eds.)Disorders of Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Pregnancy10.1007/978-3-319-15120-5_1 1. Hemostatic Changes in Normal Pregnancy Carolyn M. Millar1 and Michael Laffan1 (1) Centre for Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College,…
Fig. 24.1 Map of Argentina Fig. 24.2 Argentina in the world map The total population (2013) is 41,446,000 inhabitants, with a life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2012) of 73/79…
Fig. 19.1 Estimated new cancer cases and deaths worldwide for leading cancer sites by level of economic development. Source: GLOBOCAN 2012 The World Health Organization (WHO) projected that by 2030,…
Fig. 6.1 Distribution of the Palestinian Population by governorates, Palestine, 2013. Source: Data from Ministry of Health Report, Palestine, 2013 Cancer in the West Bank and Gaza is considered to…
Fig. 8.1 Map of Jordan (CIA World Factbook) The climate of the country is mostly moderate to dry desert; temperature on average ranges from 4 to 31 °C. Natural resources…
The Land and Geography: Egypt is located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Rectangular in shape, it covers an area of 386,000 mile2. To the West lie the Western Desert…
Fig. 23.1 Cancer mortality profile (Source: World Health Organization—cancer country profiles; Romania, 2014) Fig. 23.2 Age-standardized cancer mortality trends (Source: World Health Organization—cancer country profiles; Romania, 2014) Among all types…
Fig. 22.1 Cancer incidence by localization and sex in Georgia (2012) Unfortunately, about half of newly revealed cancer cases are diagnosed at stage III–IV. The big number of the cases…
Fig. 29.1 A time line of discovery and clinical implementation of genomics to advance treatment of childhood ALL. ALL acute lymphoblastic leukemia, SNP single-nucleotide polymorphism, TPMT thiopurine methyltransferase Integration of…
