Successful use of recombinant factor VIIa for severe surgical liver bleeding in a 5 month-old baby

✍ Scribed by C. Barro; I. Wrobleski; C. Piolat; M. Cartal; J.-F. Dyon; C. Jacquier; P. Andrini; B. Polack; G. Pernod

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1351-8216
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2516.2003.00845.x

✦ Synopsis

Summary.  A 5 month‐old baby developed non‐ceasing intra‐peritoneal bleeding after extensive surgical biopsy for an hepatoblastoma. A single recombinant activated factor VII injection following enlarged hepatectomy helped to resolve quickly this life‐threatening haemorrhagic syndrome.