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Emerging genetic and pharmacologic therapies for controlling hemostasis: beyond recombinant clotting factors.
Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program - 1 Jan 2015
Monahan Paul E
Abstract excerpt
For more than 3 decades, the scientific community has pursued gene correction of hemophilia, with the goal that an individual with congenitally deficient factor VIII or factor IX might synthesize adequate endogenous clotting factor to be relieved of burdensome repeated clotting factor infusions, as well as the emotional weight of continuous hemorrhage risk. Recent reports of successful factor IX gene therapy and...
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