What is it about?
This is a case report of a bodybuilder who injected illicit testosterone and developed catastrophic, life and limb-threatening clotting within veins and arteries
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Why is it important?
This is an under-reported phenomenon, possibly related to an undisclosed contaminant that may be within “street” testosterone, that presumably is used most frequently in body builders.
Perspectives
This is an important prospective on thrombosis given that in my experience, I have not encountered such catastrophic arterial and venous clotting outside of episodes of catastrophic anti phospholipid antibody syndrome or heparin-induced thrombocytopenia with thrombosis.
John Fish
Conrad and Caroline Jobst Foundation
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This page is a summary of: A Tumultuous Course of Exogenous Testosterone by a Bodybuilder Causing a Catastrophic Hypercoagulable State in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Case Reports in Vascular Medicine, December 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation,
DOI: 10.1155/2019/3097865.
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