Successful use of recombinant factor VIIa for severe surgical liver bleeding in a 5 month-old baby.

Haemophilia

Cell Biology and Pathology Department Child Intensive Care Unit, CHU Grenoble, France.

Published: March 2004

A 5 month-old baby developed non-ceasing intra-peritoneal bleeding after extensive surgical biopsy for an hepatoblastoma. A single recombinant activated factor VII injection following enlarged hepatectomy helped to resolve quickly this life-threatening haemorrhagic syndrome.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2516.2003.00845.xDOI Listing

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