Use of recombinant factor VIIa in the management and prophylaxis of bleeding episodes in two patients with Bernard-Soulier syndrome

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 455-457

  Hacihanefioglu, Abdullah ^a   Tarkun, Pinar ^a   Gonullu, Emel ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A;

ADULT; BERNARD SOULIER DISEASE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS;

ADULT; BERNARD-SOULIER SYNDROME; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; EPISTAXIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FACTOR VII; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENORRHAGIA; PLATELET GLYCOPROTEIN GPIB-IX COMPLEX; PLATELET MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249946166     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2006.10.018     Document Type: Letter

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