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Late form of Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding in Germany

Klinische Padiatrie, 1995
The evaluation of the disease of vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB).108 reported cases between 1980 and 1990 from Germany.VKDB occurs preferentially (90%) in fully breastfed infants, males are affected nearly twice as often as females. The peak age is four weeks; the majority (79%) of the infants are between three and seven weeks old.
H Niederhoff, A H Sutor
exaly   +4 more sources

Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding

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 choices.
S. Banerjee, S. Kapoor, N.B. Mathur
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Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding

Advances in Neonatal Care, 2013
Vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB), formerly known as hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN), is a bleeding disorder in neonates that is caused by inadequate serum levels of vitamin K. Vitamin K is a nutrient essential for adequate function of the coagulation cascade.
Christopher W, Woods, Amanda G, Woods, Carmen K, Cederholm   +2 more
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Vitamin K prophylaxis and vitamin K deficiency bleeding in the UK

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2010
Aim To correlate incidence, morbidity and mortality of vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) with changing practices in vitamin K (VK) prophylaxis in the UK—most recently the withdrawal of Konakion Neonatal in 2006, leaving Konakion MM as the only licenced preparation for prophylaxis in the UK.
A Busfield, R Samuel, A McNinch, J Tripp
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Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding: An Ounce of Prevention

Neonatal Network, 2020
Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin essential for the formation of factors in the clotting cascade. Newborns are born with insufficient levels of vitamin K, resulting in high risk for vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB). Vitamin K deficiency bleeding can occur in the first week of life (“classic” VKDB) and also between 2 weeks and 3 months of age ...
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Bleeding and Vitamin K Deficiency

2016
Vitamin K is a cofactor for human glutamic acid carboxylase enzymes in multiple tissues and organs. The dominant vitamin K activity is gamma-carboxylation of selective glutamic acid residues on coagulation factors X, IX, VII, and II. Humans predominantly rely on green vegetable dietary sources of vitamin K rather than synthesis of vitamin K by ...
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Are Pediatricians Complicit in Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding?

Pediatrics, 2015
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all newborns receive a single dose of intramuscular vitamin K to prevent vitamin K deficiency bleeding. How should the clinician respond when parents decline vitamin K? Although vitamin K deficiency bleeding can have devastating sequelae, they are uncommon; therefore, parents are generally allowed to ...
Melissa, Weddle, Allison, Empey, Eric, Crossen, Aaron, Green, Joy, Green, Carrie A, Phillipi   +5 more
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Celiac disease with diffuse cutaneous vitamin K-deficiency bleeding

Advances in Therapy, 2007
This article describes a 4-y-old girl with spontaneous, generalized bruising, abdominal distention, and signs of malnutrition. She had been treated previously with an antibiotic for diarrhea. Laboratory analyses showed the presence of iron-deficiency anemia, mild hypoalbuminemia, and considerably prolonged prothrombin time and activated thromboplastin ...
Zlatko, Djuric, Sasa, Zivic, Vuka, Katic
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Bleeding Risks with Vitamin K Deficiency

2009
Vitamin K is needed for the synthesis of the coagulation factors FII, FVII, FIX and FX. It is also required for the production of the endogenous inhibitors of coagulation, protein C and protein S. The two most common situations that lead to vitamin K-dependent coagulation factor deficiency are dietary vitamin K deficiency and warfarin therapy.
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Vitamin K-Deficiency Bleeding in Neonates

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 1999
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