Taking a page from our experience with hemorrhagic states and hypocoagulability due to deficiency of one or more clotting factors, five years ago we investigated certain specific clotting factors ...

Damage to a blood vessel wall triggers the system, initiating interactions between platelets and blood coagulation factors. This leads to the formation of a fibrin-containing clot, which stops ...

For people with the bleeding disorder hemophilia, life can seem like one continuous state of alertness. If they accidentally ...

The symptoms of hemophilia — bleeding and bruising — are caused by having a low level of clotting factors in the blood. Therefore, people with hemophilia need to replace those factors so that ...

Man becomes first in Indiana to undergo gene therapy for hemophilia B. The procedure aims to address the root cause of the ...

Ten victims who received blood tainted with Hepatitis C and HIV over 20 years in Britain have received nearly $16.5 million ...

The liver is the site of synthesis of all clotting factors except factor VIII; therefore in liver disease there will be prolonged values due to a lack of factor production. Transfusing the patient ...