Preventing late bleeding in infants with vitamin K deficiency
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Vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) is a coagulopathy that develops in infants who do not have sufficient vitamin K stores to support production of clotting factors. In adults, vitamin K is absorbed from food and from vitamin K synthesized by gut bacteria. However, placental transfer in humans is limited; cord blood and infant liver reserve levels of vitamin K are substantially below adult lev...
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Intracranial haemorrhage in early childhood is associated with a wide variety of causes such as trauma, vascular malformations (aneurysm and arteriovenous malformation), haemorrhagic infarction, brain tumours or blood coagulation disorders (congenital or acquired from coagulation factors). Vitamin K deficiency causes blood coagulation disturbances that can lead to intracranial haemorrhage [1]. ...
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BACKGROUND The administration of vitamin K immediately after birth has shown a significant decrease in the incidence of newborn bleeding, but there is not enough evidence to determine the most appropriate method of administration. The objective of this review is to determine the effectiveness of orally administered vitamin K compared to the intramuscular route in the prevention of hemorrhagic d...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.316.7126.230