background bone marrow transplantation (bmt)is nowadays used in various hematological disorders including leukemias. hemophilia a & b are sex linked bleeding disorders in which there are various genetic abnormalities in factor viii & ix genes. among various hematological disorders, bleeding disorders mainly hemophilia in now widely treated using plasma derived and recombinant factor viii & ix c...

as hemophilia is a chronic bleeding disease and can interfere with daily performance of children, these children require continuous training to prevent bleeding and take timely action (1). since children nurses play an important role in the education of involved children and their selfefficacy and also due to today’s approach which is using educational computer games, the use of educational gam...

Hemophilia is one of the most common inherited coagulation disorder; with almost half of the cases presents in the neonatal period with bleeding episodes specially post circumcision, although family history is present in about two third cases. Retroperitoneal hemorrhage is a very rare presentation of hemophilia and to the best of our knowledge has not described yet, as initial presentation of h...

background: factor viii administration to hemophilia a patients results in an immune response (inhibitor formation) which significantly complicates the therapy. the present study was performed to determine the prevalence of inhibitor development in hemophilia a patients receiving recombinant factor viii therapy. materials and methods: this was an observational descriptive study. clotting factor...

In order to learn about Haemophilia from the point of view of the sufferers, I interviewed six severely affected haemophiliacs, discussing with them their past experience, current status and treatment. I found them to be an optimistic and independent group who, despite their memories of a painful childhood and their current disablement, contrived to live in the present with gusto and vigour. Th...