
Recombinant Factor VIIa to the rescue!?
The trauma room has turned into a blood bath. You're going to have to buy new shoes. What should you throw at the patient - the kitchen sink or Factor VII?

The trauma room has turned into a blood bath. You're going to have to buy new shoes. What should you throw at the patient - the kitchen sink or Factor VII?

Biography Medical Eponyms Glanzmann thrombastenia (1918) autosomal recessive bleeding disorder characterized by deficient or dysfunctional glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa complexes. In the absence of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor (aka the fibrinogen receptor), platelets do not stick to each other at the site of…

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