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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.
A H Sutor, H Niederhoff
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Vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) in early infancy

Blood Reviews, 2009
Vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) is a rare and potentially life-threatening bleeding disorder of early infancy. Vitamin K stores are low at birth; thereafter breast-fed infants are at risk because of low concentrations in human milk. Classical VKDB occurs in the first week of life, is related to delayed or inadequate feeding and is readily ...
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Late-type vitamin K deficiency bleeding: experience from 120 patients

Child's Nervous System, 2011
Background Deficiency of vitamin K predisposes to early, classic, or late vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB), of which late VKDB may be associated with serious and life-threatening intracranial bleeding.
Mehmet Akif Özdemir, , Huseyin Per
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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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Oral vitamin K prophylaxis and frequency of late vitamin K deficiency bleeding

Lancet, The, 1994
J H Tripp
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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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