Treatment of traumatic bleeding with recombinant factor VIIa

Authors
Kenet, G Walden, R Eldad, A Martinowitz, U
Citation
G. Kenet et al., Treatment of traumatic bleeding with recombinant factor VIIa, LANCET, 354(9193), 1999, pp. 1879-1879
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
General & Internal Medicine","Medical Research General Topics
Journal title
LANCET
ISSN journal
01406736 → ACNP
Volume
354
Issue
9193
Year of publication
1999
Pages
1879 - 1879
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-6736(19991127)354:9193<1879:TOTBWR>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Surgical intervention failed to stop life-threatening bleeding caused by in jury complicated by severe coagulopathy. Administration of recombinant fact or VIIa immediately corrected the coagulopathy and bleeding stopped.