An active surveillance system was used to identify all residents with hemophilia in six U.S. states (Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, and Oklahoma). A hemophilia case was defined as a person with physician-diagnosed hemophilia A or B and/or a measured baseline factor VIII or IX
Diagnosis of the carrier state in hemophilia
β Scribed by Oscar D. Ratnoff; Paul K. Jones
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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