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Advances in Care of Children with Hemophilia

Source: www.hemophiliaregion9.org
Topic: Hemophilia
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Sort Desciption: Care for children with severe hemophilia has moved from pediatric hospital wards and rehabilitation services to the home, school, and community. Advances in hemophilia are due largely to the development of ...

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ABSTRACT Care for children with severe hemophilia has moved from pediatric hospital wards and rehabilitation services to the home, school, and community. Advances in hemophilia are due largely to the development of specialized hemophilia treatment centers, which created a system of comprehensive care and focused healthcare efforts on prevention and education. Parallel advances in coagulation resulted in identification of clotting factors VIII and IX, elucidation of the protein molecular and biochemical structures and functions, sequencing of their respective genes and transfer of the human genes for production of proteins by recombinant technology, and development of gene therapy. The tragedy of the human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C raised awareness in patients as well as healthcare providers of the vulnerability of blood products to viral contamination and spurred progress in science leading to viral ...

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