Haemophilia
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In the human body, each cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, one of
each pair inherited through the egg from the mother, and the other
inherited through the sperm of the father. Of these chromosomes, those that
determine sex are X and Y. Females have XX and males have XY. In addition
to the infor ....
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.... compensate for this defect.
There are two types of haemophilia, haemophilia A and B. Haemophilia A
is a hereditary disorder in which bleeding is due to deficiency of the
coagulation factor VIII (VIII:C)3. In most of the cases, this coagulant
protein is reduced but in a rare amount of cases, this protein is present
by immunoassay but defective.4 Haemophilia A is the most common severe
bleeding disorder and approximately 1 in 10,000 males is effected. The most
common types of bleeding ....
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