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In today episode, our expert guest, Laure Morimont, Project leader at QUALIblood SA, will detail with us the current knowledge on thrombotic risk under hormonal therapy and how this can be assessed.  

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Literature sources: 

• de Bastos  M, Stegeman  BH, Rosendaal  FR, Van Hylckama Vlieg  A, Helmerhorst  FM, Stijnen  T, Dekkers  OM. Combined oral contraceptives: venous thrombosis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2014, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD010813. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010813.pub2. Accessed 16 June 2021. 
• Douxfils J, Morimont L, Bouvy C. Oral Contraceptives and Venous Thromboembolism: Focus on Testing that May Enable Prediction and Assessment of the Risk. Semin Thromb Hemost. 2020 Nov;46(8):872-886. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1714140. Epub 2020 Oct 20. PMID: 33080636. 
• Abou-Ismail MY, Citla Sridhar D, Nayak L. Estrogen and thrombosis: A bench to bedside review. Thromb Res. 2020 Aug;192:40-51. doi: 10.1016/j.thromres.2020.05.008. Epub 2020 May 11. PMID: 32450447; PMCID: PMC7341440. 
• Morimont L, Dogné JM, Douxfils J. Letter to the Editors-in-Chief in response to the article of Abou-Ismail, et al. entitled "Estrogen and thrombosis: A bench to bedside review" (Thrombosis Research 192 (2020) 40-51). Thromb Res. 2020 Sep;193:221-223. doi: 10.1016/j.thromres.2020.08.006. Epub 2020 Aug 5. PMID: 32798963. 

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