An Interesting Case of Acquired Hemophilia A in an Elderly Patient Presenting with Hematuria

A 90-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension, chronic kidney disease stage II, and hyperlipidemia presented with complaints of intermittent hematuria. He had no prior history of hematuria or mucosal bleeds and denied having any trauma. His activated partial thromboplastin time (aPT...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Parth, Reddivari, Anil Kumar Reddy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Hematology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6939965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31929957
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6540
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description A 90-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension, chronic kidney disease stage II, and hyperlipidemia presented with complaints of intermittent hematuria. He had no prior history of hematuria or mucosal bleeds and denied having any trauma. His activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) was found to be mildly prolonged at 48.4 seconds and his factor VIII level was found to be very low at less than 3%. 
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spelling pubmed-69399652020-01-10 An Interesting Case of Acquired Hemophilia A in an Elderly Patient Presenting with Hematuria Mehta, Parth Reddivari, Anil Kumar Reddy Cureus Hematology A 90-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension, chronic kidney disease stage II, and hyperlipidemia presented with complaints of intermittent hematuria. He had no prior history of hematuria or mucosal bleeds and denied having any trauma. His activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) was found to be mildly prolonged at 48.4 seconds and his factor VIII level was found to be very low at less than 3%.  Cureus 2020-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6939965/ /pubmed/31929957 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6540 Text en Copyright © 2020, Mehta et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title An Interesting Case of Acquired Hemophilia A in an Elderly Patient Presenting with Hematuria
title_full An Interesting Case of Acquired Hemophilia A in an Elderly Patient Presenting with Hematuria
title_fullStr An Interesting Case of Acquired Hemophilia A in an Elderly Patient Presenting with Hematuria
title_full_unstemmed An Interesting Case of Acquired Hemophilia A in an Elderly Patient Presenting with Hematuria
title_short An Interesting Case of Acquired Hemophilia A in an Elderly Patient Presenting with Hematuria
title_sort interesting case of acquired hemophilia a in an elderly patient presenting with hematuria
topic Hematology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6939965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31929957
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6540
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