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Preparing for menarche: treatment and management of heavy periods in women with bleeding disorders

The Journal of Haemophilia Practice

Volume 6 (2019): Issue 2 (January 2019)

By: Michelle Lavin , Rezan A Kadir , Sylvia von Mackensen , Debra Pollard and Anna Tollwé

Open Access

|Dec 2019

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Improving diagnosis, care and treatment for women and girls who experience heavy menstrual bleeding is a multi-faceted challenge, involving the education of people with bleeding disorders and health professionals, early contact with the families of pre-pubertal girls, the breaking down of taboos around discussing menstruation, individualised treatment plans, and general awareness-raising© Shutterstock

Prevalence of menorrhagia in women with bleeding disorders [1]

DISORDER	PREVALENCE (%)
Von Willebrand disease	32-100
Platelet dysfunction
Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia	51
Bernard-Soulier syndrome	13-98
Haemophilia	10-57
Factor XI deficiency	59
Factor XIII deficiency	35-64
Rare factor deficiencies	35-70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17225/jhp00141 | Journal eISSN: 2055-3390

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Language: English

Page range: 24 - 27

Published on: Dec 13, 2019

Published by: Haemnet Ltd

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

Women with bleeding disorders,

menstrual bleeding,

Related subjects:

Basic medical science,

Basic medical science, other,

Clinical medicine,

Clinical medicine, other,

© 2019 Michelle Lavin, Rezan A Kadir, Sylvia von Mackensen, Debra Pollard, Anna Tollwé, published by Haemnet Ltd
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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