Hemophilia A
Hemophilia A: Introduction
Hemophilia A:
Hemophilia A is a hereditary blood disorder, primarily affecting males, characterized by a deficiency of the blood clotting protein known as Factor VIII that ... more about Hemophilia A.
Hemophilia A: A rare coagulation disorder caused by a deficiency of factor VIII which results in bleeding problems.
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causes, and treatments of Hemophilia A is available below.
Symptoms of Hemophilia A
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- Hemophilia
- "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
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Wrongly Diagnosed with Hemophilia A?
Misdiagnosis and Hemophilia A
Unnecessary hysterectomies due to undiagnosed bleeding disorder in women: The bleeding disorder
called Von Willebrand's disease is quite common in women, but often fails to be correctly diagnosed.
Women with the condition tend to have heavy periods, since they actually have a bleeding disorder.
Severe afflictions may result in the women receiving a hysterectomy unnecessarily, when the
underlying cause has not been identified.
See the introduction to Von Willebrand's disease and bleeding disorder....read more »
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Causes of Hemophilia A
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Clinical Trials for Hemophilia A
The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally
and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.
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Types of Hemophilia A
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Article Excerpts about Hemophilia A
Hemophilia A is a hereditary blood disorder, primarily affecting males, characterized by a deficiency of the blood clotting protein known as Factor VIII that results in abnormal bleeding.
Babylonian Jews first described hemophilia more than 1700 years ago; the disease first drew widespread public attention when Queen Victoria transmitted it to several European royal families.
(Source: Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology)
Definitions of Hemophilia A:
An inherited deficiency of coagulation Factor VIII characterized by the tendency to spontaneous or exaggerated post-traumatic hemorrhage. Inherited as an x-linked recessive disease, hemophilia A is the most common hemophilia, occurring in approximately 1 in 10,000 male births. --2004
- (Source - Diseases Database)
Hemophilia A is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Hemophilia A, or a subtype of Hemophilia A,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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