ALLMedicine™ Vitamin K Deficiency Center

Feb 14th, 2023 - Vitamin K is essential for the process of coagulation. In its absence, severe and sometimes fatal bleeding events can occur, especially in newborns. Vitamin K prophylaxis at birth has been shown to prevent morbidity and mortality associated with v...

Feb 6th, 2023 - Partecipanting Centers Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Parma Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Siena Ospedale Buon Consiglio Fatebenefratelli, Napoli Ospedale Di Venere, Bari Materials and Methods Term healthy newborn born from March 2019 ...

Jan 31st, 2023 - Practice Essentials Protein S is a vitamin K–dependent anticoagulant protein that was first discovered in Seattle, Washington in 1979 and arbitrarily named after that city. The major function of protein S is as a cofactor to facilitate the action ...

Jan 31st, 2023 - Laboratory Studies Protein S deficiency is diagnosed using laboratory tests for the protein S antigen and by using other tests for functional protein S activity (based on clotting assays), as follows [34] : Protein S antigen: Laboratories can test...

Jan 31st, 2023 - Practice Essentials Protein S is a vitamin K–dependent anticoagulant protein that was first discovered in Seattle, Washington in 1979 and arbitrarily named after that city. The major function of protein S is as a cofactor to facilitate the action ...

Feb 6th, 2023 - Partecipanting Centers Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Parma Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Siena Ospedale Buon Consiglio Fatebenefratelli, Napoli Ospedale Di Venere, Bari Materials and Methods Term healthy newborn born from March 2019 ...

Jan 30th, 2023 - The study design is a prospective randomized control trial done in a single institution from 2021 to 2022. Approval from the institutional ethics committee was obtained for the study (number 04/21). Major surgery was defined as "surgeries involvin...

Jan 19th, 2023 - Many physiological, anatomical, and hormonal changes occur in the body during pregnancy to facilitate the best possible growth of the fetus. A functional liver and bile acids (BA) milieu are critical for the development of the fetus, and adverse p...

Feb 15th, 2022 - Vitamin K deficiency can cause serious risks to pregnant women and their babies that may lead to hemorrhage, especially in newborns. We aim to evaluate the efficacy of vitamin k in decreasing blood loss during and after elective cesarean section (...

Jul 21st, 2021 - Vascular calcification has emerged as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, especially in chronic kidney disease . It has a predictive value of poor prognoses and clinical outcomes in CKD patients such as overall m...

Sep 28th, 2022 - The Diagnosis: Calciphylaxis Calciphylaxis is a rare life-threatening condition that most often is seen in patients with end-stage renal disease at a rate of 35 per 10,000 chronic dialysis patients. 1 It less commonly has been described in nonuremi.

Feb 22nd, 2022 - After the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) began recommending vitamin K shots for newborns in 1961, infant bleeding as a result of vitamin K deficiency plummeted. The life-threatening disorder is so rare that some parents now question the need...

May 24th, 2021 - Key clinical point: Increased levels of prothrombin induced by vitamin K deficiency or antagonist- II (PIVKA-II) identified patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Major finding: Median PIVKA-II serum levels were significantly higher in pati.

May 17th, 2021 - Nevena Damjanov, MD This month’s articles investigate earlier diagnosis of new or recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The first study looked at patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, trying to identify those at higher risk for deve.

Nov 8th, 2020 - Patients who take the vitamin K antagonist warfarin to prevent thromboembolic events are significantly more likely to require knee or hip replacement surgery — a surrogate endpoint for end-stage osteoarthritis — than are patients who take direct o...