Congenital Afibrinogenemia presenting as antenatal intracranial bleed: a case report

Gopakumar Hariharan; Sivji Ramachandran; Rajiv Parapurath

doi:10.1186/1824-7288-36-1

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Congenital Afibrinogenemia presenting as antenatal intracranial bleed: a case report

Gopakumar Hariharan, Sivji Ramachandran, Rajiv Parapurath

Italian Journal of Pediatrics2010doi:10.1186/1824-7288-36-1

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Abstract

Congenital afibrinogenemia is a very rare inherited coagulation disorder, characterized by virtual absence of plasma fibrinogen (factor I). There are only about 250 cases reported in the world literature 1. We describe a case of congenital afibrinogenemia which presented as an antenatally detected intracranial bleed.

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