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Vascular bleeding disorders are a group of conditions in which structural abnormalities of the blood vessel wall result in bleeding manifestations such as easy bruising, petechiae, purpura, and mucocutaneous bleeding. In contrast to platelet or coagulation factor disorders, major or life-threatening hemorrhage is uncommon, with the notable exception of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT). These disorders arise from inherited or acquired […]
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Hemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder in which the blood fails to clot normally due to a deficiency or dysfunction of specific clotting factors—proteins essential for coagulation. This results in prolonged or spontaneous bleeding, particularly into joints and muscles. The term hemophilia is the standard international spelling (also rendered as haemophilia in the UK and hémophilie, hemofilie, hemofilia, hämophilie, or […]
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