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Causes of Vitamin K Deficiency in Patients on Haemodialysis. [PDF]
Nutrients, 2020 Background: A low vitamin K status is common in patients on haemodialysis, and this is considered one of the reasons for the accelerated atherosclerosis in these patients. The vitamin is essential in activation of the protein Matrix Gla Protein (MGP), and the inactive form, dp-ucMGP, is used to measure vitamin K status. The purpose of this study was to
Wikstrøm S +6 more
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Severe Early-Onset Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding in a Neonate Born to a Mother with Crohn's Disease in Clinical Remission: A Case Report [PDF]
American Journal of Perinatology ReportsVitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) in neonates is a significant disorder that causes skin, gastrointestinal, and intracranial hemorrhaging. Early-onset VKDB occurs within 24 hours of birth, and its prognosis is poor due to severe hemorrhage. The causes
Chiho Ikenaga +9 more
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Vitamin K deficiency-induced hemorrhagic shock after thoracentesis: a case report [PDF]
BMC Gastroenterology, 2019 Background Vitamin K deficiency results in serious coagulation dysfunction, but hemorrhagic shock is rare. Herein, we describe a case of vitamin K deficiency and abnormality in the path of the intercostal artery, the combination of which led to ...
Hideya Itagaki, Takuro Hagino
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Subgaleal Haematoma due to Vitamin K Deficiency in an Infant: A Case Report [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2021 Haemorrhagic Disease of the New Born by Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding (VKDB), occurring shortly after birth and caused by deficiency of vitamin K dependent factors (factors II, VII, IX, and X) has been well documented.
Kapil Bainade +4 more
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Journal of Marine Medical Society, 2023 Background: Late Vitamin K deficiency bleeding, is a disease of exclusively breast-fed infants attributable to poor content of Vitamin K in breast milk.
Gitanjali Jain +7 more
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Vitamin K and vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease: An update of current evidence
Tzu Chi Medical Journal, 2023 Vascular calcification, characterized by calcium deposition in the intimal and medial layers of the arterial wall, is frequently encountered in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and leads to an enhanced risk of adverse cardiovascular (CV ...
Yu-Li Lin, Bang-Gee Hsu
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The Role of Vitamin K in Cirrhosis: Do Pharmaco-K-Netics Matter?
Gastrointestinal Disorders, 2022 Patients with advanced liver disease who are not taking vitamin K antagonists often have an elevated international normalized ratio, potentially due to vitamin K deficiency and the decreased synthesis of clotting factors by the liver. It is possible that
Stephanie Jin +2 more
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Italian Journal of Medicine, 2023 Prolonged prothrombin time increases the risk of bleeding complications in proportion to prolongation severity. We reported the case of a 72-year-old woman with a recent hospitalization for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis ...
Matteo Nicoletto +6 more
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Review article - Impact of Vitamin K on Human Health
Iraqi Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2021 Vitamins k is an important fat-soluble vitamin that can be obtained from plants, bacteria and animals and is necessary for the blood clotting. It plays a key function as a cofactor in the synthesizing of blood clotting proteins in the liver; recently ...
Najwan K. Fakhree +2 more
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Experimental Model of Subclinical Vitamin K Deficiency [PDF]
Folia Medica, 2020 Introduction: Vitamin K (VK) is a co-factor in the post-translational gamma glutamic carboxylation of Gla-proteins. VK-dependent coagulation factors are carboxylated in the liver by VK1.
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