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Symptoms of inherited factor V deficiency in 35 Iranian patients
Author(s) -
M Lak,
Roxana Sharifian,
Flora Peyvandi,
Pier Mannuccio Mannucci
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
british journal of haematology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.907
H-Index - 186
eISSN - 1365-2141
pISSN - 0007-1048
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1998.01077.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gastroenterology , severe bleeding , gastrointestinal bleeding , fresh frozen plasma , coagulopathy , surgery , platelet
The type of bleeding symptom has been evaluated in 35 Iranian patients with an inherited deficiency of factor V, with plasma levels between 1% and 10%. The most frequent symptoms included epistaxis and excessive bleeding after surgery. Haemarthroses and muscle haematomas were less common, even in severely deficient patients. More severe symptoms such as gastrointestinal and central nervous system bleeding were rare. The severity of bleeding symptoms was only partially related to the degree of factor V deficiency in plasma. On the whole, human factor V deficiency is characterized by a moderately severe bleeding phenotype.