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Haemophilia (British English), or hemophilia (American English) [6] (from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma) ' blood ' and φιλία (philía) ' love of '), [7] is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding.
"Hemophilia: The Royal Disease" Yelena Aronova-Tiuntseva and Clyde Freeman Herreid; Family tree of Queen Victoria and her descendants; Haemophilia in Queen Victoria's Descendants. Archived 2006-11-18 at the Wayback Machine; Victor A. McKusick (August 1965). "The Royal Hemophilia". Scientific American. pp. 88– 95
Contaminated hemophilia blood products were a serious public health problem in the late 1970s up to 1985. [citation needed] Hemophilia A causes a deficiency in Factor VIII, a protein required for blood clotting. Factor VIII injections are a common treatment to prevent or stop bleeding in people with hemophilia A. [1]
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Haemophilia B, also spelled hemophilia B, is a blood clotting disorder causing easy bruising and bleeding due to an inherited mutation of the gene for factor IX, and resulting in a deficiency of factor IX. It is less common than factor VIII deficiency (haemophilia A). [3]
Haemophilia is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to clot, a process needed to stop bleeding. [20] [21] This results in people bleeding longer after an injury, easy bruising, and an increased risk of bleeding inside joints or other parts of the body.
Why is tipping your head back a bad idea when your nose is bleeding? “The only two places that blood can go when you have a nosebleed are from the front of the nose or down the back of the nose ...
Haemophilus influenzae (formerly called Pfeiffer's bacillus or Bacillus influenzae) is a Gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillary, facultatively anaerobic, capnophilic pathogenic bacterium of the family Pasteurellaceae.