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MKSAP 18 Q&A
A 24-year-old woman is admitted to the hospital with a right lower lobe pulmonary embolism. Her mother experienced a deep venous thrombosis 25 years ago. Weight-based intravenous heparin is initiated.
On physical examination, temperature and blood pressure are normal, pulse rate is 120/min, and respiration rate is 19/min. Oxygen saturation is 91% breathing ambient air. The examination is otherwise unremarkable.
Despite appropriately increasing doses of heparin, her activated partial thromboplastin time remains in the normal range.
Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
A: Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome
B: Antithrombin deficiency
C: Factor V Leiden
D: Protein C deficiency