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Hemorrhagic disease of newborn by combined blood clotting factor deficiencies is very rare.
Combined deficiency of factor V and factor VIII is the most common form among these
cases, and inherited by autosomal recessive trait. Clinical findings are easy bruising, posttraumatic
bleeding and bleeding after tooth extractions, and the main laboratory findings are
prolonged partial thromboplastin time (PTT) and prothrombin time (PT) that are... |