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Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding in Infancy [PDF]
Nutrients, 2020 Vitamin K is essential for the synthesis of few coagulation factors. Infants can easily develop vitamin K deficiency owing to poor placental transfer, low vitamin K content in breast milk, and poor intestinal absorption due to immature gut flora and ...
Akira Shirahata, Shunsuke Araki
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No child should suffer from vitamin K deficiency‐induced bleeding disorders
Clinical Case Reports (discontinued), 2022 We encountered an 11‐day‐old male neonate with vitamin K deficiency‐induced intracranial hemorrhage, despite receiving oral vitamin K2 (menaquinone‐4) prophylaxis according to Japanese guidelines.
Masazumi Miyahara
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Prophylactic vitamin K for vitamin K deficiency bleeding in neonates [PDF]
The Cochrane Library, 2000 Vitamin K deficiency can cause bleeding in an infant in the first weeks of life. This is known as Hemorrhagic Disease of the Newborn (HDN). HDN is divided into three categories: early, classic and late HDN. Early HDN occurs within 24 hours post partum and falls outside the scope of this review.
Martin Offringa
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Journal of Neonatology, 2003 This letter deals with the problem of vitamin k deficiency bleeding, affecting exclusively breast-fed infants, and with the possible prophylactic ...
FANARO, Silvia, VIGI, Vittorio
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Transdermal delivery of vitamin K using dissolving microneedles for the prevention of vitamin K deficiency bleeding [PDF]
International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2018 Vitamin K deficiency within neonates can result in vitamin K deficiency bleeding. Ensuring that newborns receive vitamin K is particularly critical in places where access to health care and blood products and transfusions is limited.
Aaron R J Hutton +2 more
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Vitamin K deficiency: a case report and review of current guidelines
Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2018 Background Vitamin K, a fat soluble vitamin, is a necessary cofactor for the activation of coagulation factors II, VII, IX, X, and protein C and S. In neonatal period, vitamin K deficiency may lead to Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding (VKDB).
Maria Rosaria Marchili +5 more
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Vitamin K prophylaxis for prevention of vitamin K deficiency bleeding: a systematic review [PDF]
Journal of Perinatology, 2016 We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the burden of late vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) and the effect of vitamin K prophylaxis on the incidence of VKDB.
Paul, V. K. +11 more
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Late vitamin K deficiency bleeding in an infant with choledochal cyst
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2010 Infantile choledochal cyst (CC) usually presents as jaundice, vomiting, acholic stools, and hepatomegaly, and it can resemble biliary atresia.
Nada Krstovski +5 more
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Intraperitoneal Hemorrhage in a Pregnant Woman with Hyperemesis Gravidarum: Vitamin K Deficiency as a Possible Cause [PDF]
Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2016 Hyperemesis gravidarum can cause various vitamin deficiencies. Vitamin K deficiency can lead to coagulopathy or hemorrhagic diathesis. A nulliparous Japanese woman with hyperemesis gravidarum at 105/7 weeks was admitted with giant myoma, intestinal ...
Yosuke Baba +5 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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