1.
What
is the name of the disorder?
Hemophilia
2.
What
is the history behind the disorder?
References to excessive and
unexplained bleeding have been made since antiquity. And the first describe of
this disorder in the early 19th century, was that the transmission of
hemophilia was going from mothers to sons. In 1803, the Philadelphia physician
Dr. John Conrad Otto recognized that a particular bleeding condition was
hereditary and predominately affected males.
3.
Who
discovered it or/and who have done research on the disease?
Was first recognized by the Finnish physician Erik
von Willebrand in 1925.
The Philadelphia physician Dr. John Conrad Otto who did
researches on this disease.
4.
What
are main symptoms of this disease?
• Excessive bleeding
• Excessive bruising
• Easy bleeding
• Nose bleeds
• Abnormal menstrual
bleeding
5.
How
is the disorder diagnosed?
Bleeding disorders is a general term for a wide range of medical problems
that lead to poor blood clotting and continuous bleeding.
6.
How
does a person receive the disorder? Is it sex-linked? Is it a mutation? Is it
due to heredity?
The transmission of hemophilia is transferring from mothers to sons .
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