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Unsolved problems in haemophilia.

L M Aledort
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Abstract

Diagnosis and therapy for the vast majority of haemophiliacs in the world remain beyond their reach. Health care costs for hemophilia replacement products keep rising. Global inequities for financing health care result in most hemophiliacs being undertreated. The transfusion-transmitted disease, factor VIII inhibitors, is common. Its predictability escapes detection. Management has progressed substantially and offers many therapeutic modalities. Programs for prophylaxis or immune tolerance induction are impossible for most patients. Thus, the challenge for haemophiliacs is to attain these goals.

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L M Aledort. 1998. Unsolved problems in haemophilia.. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2516.1998.440341.x

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