title: Successful living donor kidney transplantation in a patient with prothrombin gene mutation: Case report and literature review.
abstract: We present a patient with known prothrombin gene mutation and a history of prior vascular events, who underwent living donor kidney transplantation. Given the presumed elevated risk of complication from known prothrombin mutation, clinical management was directed towards optimizing living donor allograft function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Transplantation, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, 500 University drive, Hershey PA 17033, USA.
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, 500 University drive, Hershey PA 17033, USA.
authors.forename: Tadahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Uemura
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, 500 University drive, Hershey PA 17033, USA.
authors.forename: Zakiyah
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kadry
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Transplantation, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, 500 University drive, Hershey PA 17033, USA.
authors.forename: Subramanian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sathishkumar
keywords: Factor V Leiden; kidney transplantation; prothrombin gene mutation; thrombophilia