Busted!
It was bound to happen. After 28 years of hand-delivering factor to foreign countries, I had to forfeit my gifts to patients and surrender the factor to customs. I traveled to Tanzania in early September for a vacation—it’s one of my favorite places in the world to visit. I was excited to introduce my boyfriend
When Can an Inhibitor Be Diagnosed?
Inhibitors are relatively uncommon. If one develops, it’s usually detected when a child with hemophilia is young, usually in the first one to three years of life. The median time to development of an inhibitor is about nine to eleven exposure days— days on which the child received one or more infusions of factor VIII
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