THE EFFECT OF NONACTIVATED PROTHROMBIN COMPLEX CONCENTRATE (PROPLEX(R) ST) ON INTRAPERITONEAL HEMATOMA IN A HEMOPHILIA-A PATIENT WITH A FACTOR-VIII INHIBITOR

Authors
KAGAWA H YASUZAWA M OZAKI Y YAMAMOTO Y KATSURADA T NOMURA S OKUBO S FUKUHARA S
Citation
H. Kagawa et al., THE EFFECT OF NONACTIVATED PROTHROMBIN COMPLEX CONCENTRATE (PROPLEX(R) ST) ON INTRAPERITONEAL HEMATOMA IN A HEMOPHILIA-A PATIENT WITH A FACTOR-VIII INHIBITOR, Internal medicine, 35(4), 1996, pp. 319-322
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Internal medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
09182918
Volume
35
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
319 - 322
Database
ISI
SICI code
0918-2918(1996)35:4<319:TEONPC>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
A 28-year-old severe hemophiliac with a factor VIII inhibitor was admi tted to our hospital with a massive and serious intraperitoneal hemato ma. He was a high-responder patient showing maximal serum inhibitor le vels as high as 255 Bethesda Units/ml (BU/ml). He was successfully tre ated with ''bypass therapy'' using a prothrombin complex concentrate ( PCC).