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.

Keywords

• Factor V Leiden
• kidney transplantation
• prothrombin gene mutation
• thrombophilia