HEMOPHILIA
Disease information
HEMOPHILIA
It is
a
genetic
disease
and hereditary that affects the coagulation of the blood and by the same the person that suffers it it tends to have bled abundant and continuous although the injuries or bruises that it
has
are very slight.
Hemofilia is
a
disease
related to chromosome X, of the
mother
who is carrying of the defective gene,
but
that does not get to suffer the
disease
, since this one develops only the men to it. In case that
a
man suffers it, it inherits only the gene to its daughters women,
but
they will only be carrying and transmitting,
but
they will not
develop
the
disease
. The gene of hemofilia is not
transmitted
of father to son.
Between the symptoms, of this
disease
they are: the uncontrollable nasal hemorrhages, pain and
muscular
swelling and to
articulate
caused by the bled one, specially in the knees and elbows and hematomas or bruises.
This
problem
must to that in the blood there are twelve very important coagulating factors. These work in equipment and must be together, if some of the 12 factors does not work or, the rest of coagulants cannot form
a
clot that allows to inhibit or to stop the bled one.
In hemofilia, the factor VIII or the IX, which they are
a
protein
that conducts battle when the walls of the blood vessels are damaged, usually fails or works in little amount, which unbalances to the rest of the factors.
There are two classes of hemofilia and on them it depends the treatment:
hemofilia To, in which it fails the coagulating factor VIII and that represents 80% of the cases.
hemofilia B, in which it fails coagulating factor IX.
The
problem
is in which the hemophiliac does not bleed with greater rapidity than the other people,
but
whom more time of the habitual one bleeds, and as its coagulation process is not the
normal
one, is necessary to administer to him whenever there is bled
a
devoid or
deficit
factor of his coagulation,
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charge
on its use.
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