HAEMOPHILIC CYSTS

The Surgical Treatment of Haemophilic Blood Cysts

The treatment of cystic haematomas in patients with haemophilia and Christmas disease is an unsolved problem, and their occurrence can be a danger to life (Macfarlane, Mallam, Witts, Bidwell, Biggs, Fraenkel, Honey and Taylor 1957). Fraenkel, Taylor and Richards (1959), who reported two examples and reviewed the literature, were able to find only one report of a patient who had survived operati...

Haemophilic cysts. Report of five cases.

Haemophilic arthropathy.

Haemophilia is a heredity disorder in which bleeding is due to deficiency of coagulation factor VIII. Haemophilia A is the second most common inherited coagulation disorder. Estimation of its incidence ranges from 1 in 20,000 to as high as 1 in 10,000 people. It is a classic example of x-linked recessive trait (1). The frequency and severity generally are related to the blood level of factor VI...

Modern management of haemophilic arthropathy.

Currently available factor concentrates for treatment of patients with haemophilia are virally inactivated or are made by recombinant technology and their broad use in developed nations has resulted in the dramatic elimination of the treatment-related viral illnesses that decimated the haemophilia community in the late 20th century. The major morbidity experienced by patients with haemophilia t...

Management of the haemophilic child.