A Saudi Arabian infant with severe factor X deficiency who had had two intracranial haemorrhages is described. Attempts to raise his factor X level and improve his prothrombin time (PT) and partial thromboplastin time (PTT) by using vitamin K, oestradiol and danazol have failed. New therapeutic tria
Severe congenital factor X deficiency with intracranial bleeding in two siblings
โ Scribed by Bahri Ermis; Rahmi Ors; Ayhan Tastekin; Fatih Orhan
- Book ID
- 114249045
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 62 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0387-7604
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