Ischaemic stroke associated with ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and factor V Leiden mutation

The ‘ART’ of thrombosis: a review of arterial and venous thrombosis in assisted reproductive technology

“…MRI and angiography in many of the reported patients with arterial strokes have also revealed evidence of isolated thrombi within affected vessels [64,66,72,73]. Several authors have also reported single-segment occlusion within otherwise normal coronary vessels [19] or normal findings [26,65,69] when coronary angiogram was performed in those patients who present with MI.…”

“…In addition to our original 58 articles [5,, which were case reports or case series, we retrieved a further nine articles [64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73] reporting on arterial complications (Table 1), and 11 articles [74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84] reporting on venous thrombotic complications associated with the use of ART (Table 2). In total, there were 96 cases of thrombotic complications in association with the use of ART to date.…”