Hemophilia

Hemophilia types A and B are inherited diseases passed on to children from a gene located on the X chromosome. Females have two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y chromosome.
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Hemophilia is a hereditary bleeding disorder in which it takes a long time for the blood to clot and abnormal bleeding occurs. This disease affects mostly males. Diseases in this category include:
hemophilia A
hemophilia B
von Willebrand's disease ...
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HEMOPHILIA A - A sex-linked genetic disease [affecting males] that results from a deficiency of clotting factor VIII, a protein factor that is required for normal blood coagulation.
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There is no cure for hemophilia, but treatment has been refined in recent years.
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Hemophilia
A blood-clotting disorder that affects one in 10,000 boys, it is rare in girls.
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Hemophilia
What is hemophilia?
Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder. It is a rare, inherited condition that does not allow the blood to clot normally.
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Hemophilia B is an inherited bleeding disorder affecting mostly men. This disease interferes with the blood's ability to clot.
What is going on in the body?
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Carrier, hemophilia: See: Hemophilia carrier.
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Antifibrinolytic agents may be used in specific situations or in combination with clotting factor replacement to treat hemophilia.
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Hemophilia A
Hemophilia B
Factor II deficiency
Factor V deficiency
Factor VII deficiency
Factor X deficiency
Factor XII deficiency
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Drug-induced immune thrombocytopenia ...
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HEMOPHILIA: An inherited disease that affects mostly males and prevents normal blood clotting. It is treated by lifelong injections of a synthetic version of the clotting factor lacking in persons with the disease.
HEPATIC: Pertaining to the liver.
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hemophilia
An inherited disorder, nearly always in males, in which one of the normal blood-clotting factors is deficient.
hemoptysis ...
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hemophilia
Group of hereditary disorders in which affected individuals fail to make enough of certain proteins needed to form blood clots.
hemorrhage ...
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Hemophilia or other bleeding problems—The chance of bleeding may be increased by aspirin
Porphyria—Meprobamate may make the condition worse
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HEMOPHILIA
SYMPTOMS"When a wound occurs, blood does not clot normally.
Early warning signs of internal bleeding include a bubbling or tingling sensation or a feeling of warmth, tightness, or stiffness in the hemorrhaging area.
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Hemophilia
Any of several hereditary blood coagulation disorders occurring almost exclusively in males.
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Repeated episodes of bleeding into the joint, as may occur in hemophilia or other bleeding disorders
Repeated episodes of gout or pseudogout, in which uric acid or calcium crystals in the joint cause episodes of inflammation ...
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Sex-linked diseases, such as the bleeding condition hemophilia, are usually carried on the X chromosome. A woman who carries a disease-associated mutated gene on one of her X chromosomes, has a 50% chance of passing the gene to her son.
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Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
Hemophilia
Sickle cell anemia
Leukemia
Decreased blood platelets ...
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NovoSeven (coagulation factor VIIa [recombinant]) A genetically engineered blood clotting protein indicated for the treatment of bleeding episodes in hemophilia A or B patients who have developed antibodies to coagulation factors VIII or IX.
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Total annual costs of AIDS were projected at between $5 and $13 billion by the end of 1992. AIDS is now the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. and is the leading cause of death among injection drug users and hemophiliacs.
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Those with disease, drug, or radiation-induced immunosuppression are also at increased risk, as are patients with insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes, malnourishment, hemophilia, or those who have had previous prosthetic joint infections.
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