Haemophilia (British English), or hemophilia (American English) (from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma) 'blood' and φιλία (philía) 'love of'), is a mostly inherited...
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Haemophilia A (or hemophilia A) is a blood clotting disorder caused by a genetic deficiency in clotting factor VIII, thereby resulting in significant...
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Haemophilia B, also spelled hemophilia B, is a blood clotting disorder causing easy bruising and bleeding due to an inherited mutation of the gene for...
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Haemophilia figured prominently in the history of European royalty in the 19th and 20th centuries. Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, of the...
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Haemophilia C (also known as plasma thromboplastin antecedent (PTA) deficiency or Rosenthal syndrome) is a mild form of haemophilia affecting both sexes...
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Porphyric hemophilia (redirect from Porphyric haemophilia)
Porphyric hemophilia may refer to: Porphyria, a group of diseases in which substances called porphyrins build up Vampirism, a term describing being a vampire...
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Acquired haemophilia A (AHA) is a rare but potentially life-threatening bleeding disorder characterized by autoantibodies directed against coagulation...
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Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (category Haemophilia in European royalty)
later created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow. He had haemophilia, which contributed to his death following a fall at the age of 30. Leopold...
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Queen Victoria (section Descendants and haemophilia)
Victoria's youngest son, Leopold, was affected by the blood-clotting disease haemophilia B and at least two of her five daughters, Alice and Beatrice, were carriers...
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to be a carrier of haemophilia, since haemophilia is X-linked, meaning that her mother would have been a carrier, if haemophilia was not otherwise previously...
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Infected blood scandal in the United Kingdom (category Contaminated haemophilia blood products)
distributed to patients by the National Health Service. Most recipients had haemophilia or had received a blood transfusion following childbirth or surgery....
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1980s, a large number of people in the United Kingdom – most of whom had haemophilia – were infected with hepatitis C and HIV as a result of receiving contaminated...
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The United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors' Organisation before 1993 was known as the United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Directors Organisation. The...
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the pathogenesis of haemophilia in 1911 and was the first to demonstrate that normal plasma could correct the defect in haemophilia. Addis was the son...
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haemophilia B. It was discovered in 1952 after a young boy named Stephen Christmas was found to be lacking this exact factor, leading to haemophilia....
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Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907–1938) (category Haemophilia in European royalty)
a car crash. Though appearing to have sustained minor injuries, his haemophilia, inherited through his great-grandmother Queen Victoria, led to fatal...
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Nicholas' and Alexandra's only son, Alexei Nikolaevich, who suffered from haemophilia. He was a divisive figure at court, seen by some Russians as a mystic...
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The Irish Haemophilia Society (IHS) is an organization that represents the interests of people with haemophilia, von Willebrand disease and other inherited...
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Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (category Haemophilia in European royalty)
Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. He was born with haemophilia, which his parents tried treating with the methods of peasant faith healer...
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Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889–1945) (category Haemophilia in European royalty)
Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine; and youngest brother Henry, had haemophilia. He died in a clinic in Tutzing, Bavaria because of a lack of blood transfusion...
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Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (category Haemophilia in European royalty)
godfather, had the blood disorder haemophilia. In February 1873, while toddling around, he was diagnosed with haemophilia when he fell and cut his ear and...
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available to haemophilia sufferers today. In more recent years, he has been actively involved in developing gene therapy for haemophilia. The first successful...
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Welsh physician focused on the field of Haemophilia. In the 1970s/1980's, he was Chairman of the Haemophilia Centre Directors Organisation. Bloom served...
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"Frittie", died after falling 20 feet from a window. The child suffered from haemophilia, and although he regained consciousness, the internal bleeding could...
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gene therapy in order to cure diseases like Diabetes mellitus, Murine haemophilia A, prostate cancer, chronic granulomatous disease, and vascular diseases...
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X-linked genetic disease (section Haemophilia A)
severe haemophilia can experience more frequent and intense bleeding. Severe haemophilia A affects most patients. Patients with mild haemophilia often...
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non-dynastic. Victoria was willing to change her religion, and her being a haemophilia carrier was only a possibility. Maria Christina was eventually persuaded...
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in Brisbane, California. It applies cell and gene therapy to combat haemophilia and other genetic diseases. The company was founded in 1995 in Richmond...
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or deficiency of which causes the abnormal bleeding associated with haemophilia type A. Kogenate is one of several commercially available Factor VIII...
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Family history of haemophilia in the family of Queen Victoria...
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