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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.
FANARO, Silvia, VIGI, Vittorio
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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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Prevention of Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding

Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 2016
The risk that a newborn will develop vitamin K deficiency bleeding is 1700/100,000 (one out of 59) if vitamin K is not administered. When intramuscular vitamin K is administered, the risk of vitamin K deficiency bleeding is reduced to 1/100,000. While women may have misconceptions about vitamin K prophylaxis for their newborns, health care providers ...
Julia C, Phillippi, Sharon L, Holley, Anna, Morad, Michelle R, Collins   +3 more
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Vitamin K prophylaxis and vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) in early infancy

Acta Paediatrica, 1992
The efficacy of vitamin K prophylaxis (1 mg im or sc, or 1–2 mg orally both given as a single dose at birth) in the prevention of vitamin K deficiency bleeding in early infancy was estimated in Germany during a 15‐month period between 1988 and 1989. Cases were identified by a survey of all paediatric hospitals and population denominators by a survey of
R, von Kries, U, Göbel
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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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Late form of Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding in Germany

Klinische Pädiatrie, 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.
Sutor, Anton H., Dagres, Nikolaos, Niederhoff, Helmut   +2 more
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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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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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