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Isma’eel, H., Taher, A., Alam, S. et al. Massive pulmonary embolism in a Lebanese patient doubly heterozygous for MTHFR and Factor V Leiden presenting with syncope and treated with tenecteplase. J Thromb Thrombolysis 21, 179–184 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11239-006-4663-0
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