Successful use of recombinant factor VIIa in a patient with inhibitor secondary to severe factor XI deficiency
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Haemophilia
- Vol. 8 (2) , 145-148
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2516.2002.00590.x
Abstract
Factor XI (FXI) inhibitors are a rare complication of inherited FXI deficiency. We report the successful use of recombinant factor VIIa (FVIIa) in a patient with a high‐responding inhibitor undergoing cataract extraction. At the time of surgery there were limited available data on the optimal management of patients with FXI deficiency. A 62‐year‐old Ashkenazi Jewish woman had a lifelong history of excessive bleeding secondary to severe FXI deficiency (2 U dL−1), and received FXI concentrate (FXI:C) when she underwent a colposuspension procedure. She was subsequently diagnosed with a FXI inhibitor of 16 Bethesda units (BU) when she developed a poor response to FXI:C at the time of total hip replacement. Two months later she was admitted for cataract extraction. The FXI level was < 1 U dL−1 with an inhibitor titre of 48 BU. She received 90 μg kg−1 of FVIIa immediately preoperatively followed by continuous infusion at a rate of 20 μg kg−1 h−1 for 24 h. The cataract extraction was successful and there was no excess bleeding during surgery or in the postoperative period. Mutation analysis of the FXI gene showed that the patient was homozygous for the type II genotype [exon 5, Glu117→Ter]. The reason for the low prevalence of inhibitor formation in patients with FXI deficiency is unclear but may reflect a number of factors including reporting bias, the rarity of absent circulating FXI:C activity, and the infrequent use of FXI replacement therapy.Keywords
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