Venous thrombosis disclosing Marchiafava-Micheli disease
Ferrari, E.; Taillan, B.; Bayle, J.; Dujardin, P.; Morand, P.
Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux 83(12): 1869-1870
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9683 PMID: 2125199 Document Number: 365307
It is established practice in patients with thromboembolic disease without the classical predisposing factors to search for general causes and abnormalities of blood clotting. The authors report a case of paroxysmal nocturnal hematuria or the Marchiafava-Micheli syndrome, a rare but classical cause of venous thrombosis. In this patient, the hemopathy presented with venous thrombosis.