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Diagnosis and treatment of inherited factor X deficiency.
Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia - 1 Nov 2008
Brown D L, Kouides P A
Abstract excerpt
Factor X is a vitamin K-dependent, liver-produced serine protease that serves a pivotal role in coagulation as the first enzyme in the common pathway to fibrin formation. Inherited factor X deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive bleeding disorder that is estimated to occur in 1:1,000,000 individuals up to 1:500 carriers. Several international registries of FX-deficient patients have greatly expanded the...
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