While patients with hereditary muscular disorder are more sedentary and believed to be at risk of thrombosis, there is little literature on thrombosis associated with hereditary muscular disorder. We report a rare case of double heterozy gous type I protein C deficiency and factor V Leiden in a patient with classic myotonic dystrophy.
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