Hemophilia
Hemophilia: Introduction
Hemophilia: Blood disease usually genetic causing failure to clot.
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causes, and treatments of Hemophilia is available below.
Symptoms of Hemophilia
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symptoms of Hemophilia
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Hemophilia: Complications
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Disease Topics Related To Hemophilia
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Medical Textbooks Online about Hemophilia
Medical Books Excerpts
- Hemophilia
- "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
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Book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Diagnostic Tests for Hemophilia
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Wrongly Diagnosed with Hemophilia?
Misdiagnosis and Hemophilia
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
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Treatments for Hemophilia
- Transfusions
- Home intravenous transfusions
- Transfusion treatment strategies
- On-demand infusion - the traditional use of infusion only when there are bleeding symptoms.
- Periodic infusion (prophylaxis) - a preventive ongoing method that reduces complications but is costly and more involved.
- more treatments...»
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treatments for Hemophilia
Latest Treatments for Hemophilia
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News Archives for Hemophilia
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Prognosis for Hemophilia
Prognosis for Hemophilia:
Good. Near normal lifestyle with treatment, but with need to avoid injury.
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Reseach about Hemophilia
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Statistics for Hemophilia
Hemophilia: Broader Related Topics
Types of Hemophilia
Types of Hemophilia
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Types of Hemophilia
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Definitions of Hemophilia:
Congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Hemophilia as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
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