Treatments For Hemophilia

Hemophilia A occurs in every one in four to five thousand men, making it the most common type. Type B affects about one in twenty thousand males. Women can experience this condition, but it is rarer. This disorder is characterized by improper blood clotting, causing severe bleeding after surgery or injury, as well as spontaneous bleeding. Patients either have a deficiency in either factor VIII or IX, two proteins that work as clotting factors. This is almost always an inherited disorder, so patients are usually born with it. A gene mutation causes the clotting factor to either be completely missing or to work improperly.