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    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 susceptibility...
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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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    Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (category Haemophilia in European royalty)
    Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow. He had haemophilia, which contributed to his death following a fall at the age of 30. Leopold was born on 7 April...
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  • may refer to: Porphyria, a group of diseases in which substances called porphyrins build up Vampirism, a term describing being a vampire This disambiguation...
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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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    Queen Victoria (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    her conception and haemophilia arises more frequently in the children of older fathers. Spontaneous mutations account for about a third of cases. At the...
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    Contaminated blood scandal in the United Kingdom (category Contaminated haemophilia blood products)
    Service throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Most recipients had haemophilia or had received a blood transfusion following childbirth or surgery. It has been...
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    Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    herself 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...
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  • people in the United Kingdom – most of whom had haemophilia – were infected with hepatitis C and HIV as a result of receiving contaminated clotting factor...
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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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    Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907–1938) (category Haemophilia in European royalty)
    He died at the age of 31 as a result of a car crash. Though appearing to have sustained minor injuries, his haemophilia, inherited through his great-grandmother...
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    Factor IX (category Infobox drug articles without a structure image)
    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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    Rasputin began acting as a faith healer for Nicholas' and Alexandra's only son, Alexei Nikolaevich, who suffered from haemophilia. He was a divisive figure at...
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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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    Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (category Haemophilia in European royalty)
    He survived the fall and might have lived had he not had haemophilia. He died hours later of a brain hemorrhage. Following Friedrich's death, his distraught...
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    Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889–1945) (category Haemophilia in European royalty)
    by Rhine; and youngest brother Henry, had haemophilia. He died in a clinic in Tutzing, Bavaria because of a lack of blood transfusion facilities. He and...
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    The HIV Haemophilia Litigation [1990] 41 BMLR 171, [1990] 140 NLJR 1349 (CA), [1989] E N. 2111, also known as AMcG002, and HHL, was a legal claim by 962...
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    is a recombinant version of clotting factor VIII, the absence or deficiency of which causes the abnormal bleeding associated with haemophilia type A. Kogenate...
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    Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (category Haemophilia in European royalty)
    Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. He was born with haemophilia, which his parents tried treating with the methods of peasant faith healer...
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    Victoria was willing to change her religion, and her being a haemophilia carrier was only a possibility. Maria Christina was eventually persuaded to drop...
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    Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    called "Frittie", died after falling 20 feet from a window. The child suffered from haemophilia, and although he regained consciousness, the internal...
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    Ryan White (category People with haemophilia)
    became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after his school barred him from attending classes following a diagnosis of AIDS. As a hemophiliac...
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    Emicizumab (category Haemophilia drugs)
    sold under the brand name Hemlibra, is a humanized bispecific monoclonal antibody for the treatment of haemophilia A, developed by Genentech and Chugai (both...
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  • severe haemophilia can experience more frequent and intense bleeding. Severe haemophilia A affects most patients. Patients with mild haemophilia often...
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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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  • hematophilia may refer to: Haemophilia, a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop...
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    considered a specific subset of the total history of a family.[citation needed] Accurate knowledge of a patient's family history may identify a predisposition...
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