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Bleeding disorders
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introduction
Hemophilia is characterized by spontaneous
bleeding manifested by hemarthrosis,
surgical/trauma bleeds, intracranial hemorrhage,
and intramuscular bleeds.
▪ The clinical severity of hemophilia depends
on factor VIII or IX level.
▪ Treatment of hemophilia requires prompt
recombinant factor replacement.
▪ von Willebrand disease (vWD) is the
most common inherited bleeding disorder.
▪ vWD is caused by either a quantitative
or qualitative defect of the von Willebrand
factor (vWF) protein.
▪ Idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura
(ITP) is a diagnosis of exclusion from a long
list of causes of thrombocytopenia.
▪ Disseminated intravascular coagulation
(DIC) is always secondary to an underlying
disorder.
▪ The key therapeutic approach to DIC is
treatment of the underlying disease
HEMOPHILIA
Inherited deficiency of factor VIII (hemophilia A) or
factor IX (hemophilia B)
Sex-linked inheritance; almost all patients male
◦ Female carriers may have mild symptoms
Hemophilia A
is an X-linked reces...
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