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P Fuseau

Descriptive Epidemiology of Haemophilia in Martinique

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DOI: 
10.7727/wimjopen.2017.184
Pages: 
47–51
Synopsis: 
This study described for the first time the descriptive epidemiology of patients harbouring haemophilia in Martinique and the context of haemophilia care since the creation of the Martinique Treatment Centre.

Objective: Haemophilia is a congenital bleeding disorder characterized by partial or complete deficiency of a clotting factor VIII (FVIII) for Haemophilia A (HA), or factor IX (FIX) for Haemophilia B (HB). In this study, we describe the epidemiology of haemophilia in patients from Martinique, a French Caribbean Island with a population of predominantly Afro-Caribbean origin. This epidemiological study has never been described before, and the associated specific mutations for the corresponding genes were unknown. 

Accepted: 
December 18, 2017
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