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A Case of Combined Congenital Deficiency of Factor V and Factor VIII
Kue Chang Cho, Soo Kyung Lee, Il Kyung Kim, Ho Sung, Chang Hee Choi
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1996;39(8):1162-1167.   Published online August 15, 1996
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...