Improvement of Factor X Deficiency during Pregnancy

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THE primary purpose of this report is to describe the salutary effect of pregnancy on the coagulation defect due to factor X (Prower-Stuart factor) deficiency in a recently diagnosed case of this syndrome. Also of importance is the fact that the patient was known all her life to have had a bleeding tendency that was, on separate occasions, diagnosed as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and congenital hypoprothrombinemia.Case ReportA 27-year-old married woman was admitted to the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital on February 4, 1959, because of severe hematuria and epistaxis of 48 hours' duration. At the age of 5 years . . .

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