looking for information about the APCR genetic disease
alex emil kentsis
aekentsi at woodlawn.uchicago.edu
Tue Jul 16 09:23:23 EST 1996
what does APCR stand for?
i did a medline search for "apcr" and it revealed nothing of relevance.
Stephane Corteel (scorteel at resulb.ulb.ac.be) wrote:
: A few weeks ago, we were informed that my wife (28 years old) is affected by a
: genetic disease called APCR.
: The only information we have about this disease are :
: - it is a genetic disease apparently due to the mutation of gene
: - it has been recently discovered (2 or 3 years ago)
: - it is related to blood coagulation
: - The effects are increased if the patient eats food containing a high
: concentration in vitamin K
: - Due to this disease, my wife has alrealy made 2 pulmonary embolisms
: in 1 year.
: Can someon provide us with more information about this problem, references
: in scientific litterature, known treatments, aso...
: Thank you for all your answers.
: Stephane Corteel, scorteel at resulb.ulb.ac.be
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