Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
Bruising - Bleeding from the umbilical cord just after birth
- Bleeding in joints
- Excessive bleeding after injury or surgery
- Nosebleeds
Signs and tests
If the health care provider suspects a bleeding disorder, laboratory tests can determine the type and severity. This disorder usually shows up in childhood, often at birth.
Tests include:
Bleeding time - Fibrinogen levels
- Partial thromboplastin time (
PTT ) - Prothrombin time (
PT ) - Reptilase time
- Thrombin time
All of these tests are abnormal in afibrinogenemia.
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Congenital afibrinogenemia Treatment
Review Date: 02/28/2011
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; and Yi-Bin Chen, MD, Leukemia/Bone Marrow
Transplant Program, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed
by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
