The Importance of Testing for Thrombophilia

Having an inherited thrombophilia doesn't appear to increase your risk of a recurrence, as long as when that patient encounters other high-risk situations. The converse is that in patients, so say this person has Factor 5-Liden, and then her mother goes and gets tested, and her mother's heterozygous, her Factor5-Liden. We know that that sister still has probably a higher risk of thrombosis than someone whose family does not have Factor 5- Liden.