hemophilia: Treatment and Screening

	Site Map \| FAQ in Daily Almanac for Nov 29, 2009 Search White Pages
Skip Navigation Home American Indian Heritage Month Atlas Encyclopedia Dictionary Thesaurus Features Quizzes Timelines Countries Slideshows

Fact Monster Kid's reference,
games, quizzes

Editor's Favorites

Encyclopedia—hemophilia

Treatment and Screening

There is no cure for hemophilia, but treatment has been refined in recent years. In the 1960s, infusion of concentrated clotting factors replaced the whole-blood or plasma transfusions previously necessary, allowing most to administer preventive treatment at home. In the 1980s, however, many hemophiliacs became infected with hepatitis or HIV (the AIDS virus) that was present in contaminated concentrated clotting factor. Blood donors are now screened, and commercial products are now heat-treated to kill the viruses. Genetic screening can identify carriers of hemophilia, and the status of fetuses can be now be ascertained early in pregnancy. Treatments under study include gene therapy by insertion of healthy factor VIII or IX genes and fetal tissue implants.

Sections in this article:

Introduction
Treatment and Screening
In History

Premium Partner Content

Related content from HighBeam Research on: hemophilia: Treatment and Screening

Identification of FVIII gene mutations in patients with hemophilia A using new combinatorial sequencing by hybridization (Indian Journal of Human Genetics)

AIDS and hemophilia: still a risk? (Science News)

News potpourri (*). (SPECIAL FEATURE).(smoking and cancer, hemophilia, pediatric cardiology, air pollution and heart attacks, headache, thrombosis) (Southern Medical Journal)

NHF praises Congresswoman for calling attention to bleeding disorders in women.(National Hemophilia Foundation, Cynthia McKinney)(Brief Article) (Women's Health Weekly)

Utility of Thrombin-Generation Assay in the Screening of Factor V G1691A (Leiden) and Prothrombin G20210A Mutations and Protein S Deficiency (Clinical Chemistry)

New measures needed to protect blood supply.(includes a related article on donor screening and AIDS) (Consumers' Research Magazine)

Hepatitis C: New Treatment Helps Some, But Cure Remains Elusive. (FDA Consumer)

Five costly conditions to watch; Is your self-funded health plan ready to handle some of the most expensive medical conditions? Is your self-funded health plan ready to handle some of the most expensive medical conditions?(Feature Story) (Employee Benefit News)

Detection of Factor VIII Gene Mutations by High-Resolution Melting Analysis (Clinical Chemistry)

The window of the body: oral signs of systemic disease. (Part XII). (The Exceptional Parent)

Infoplease Tools