The severity of symptoms can vary with this disease, and the severe forms become apparent early on. Bleeding is the hallmark of the disease and typically occurs if an infant is circumcised. Additional bleeding manifestations make their appearance when the infant becomes mobile. Mild cases may go unnoticed until later in life when try occur in response to surgery or trauma. Internal bleeding may happen anywhere, and bleeding into joints is common.
Risk factors are a family history of bleeding and being male.
The incidence of hemophilia A is 1 out of 10,000 men. Prevention genetic counseling prenatal intrauterine diagnosis with termination of pregnancy as an option Symptoms bruising spontaneous bleeding bleeding into joints and associated pain and swelling gastrointestinal tract and urinary tract hemorrhage blood in the urine or stool prolonged bleeding from cuts, tooth extraction, and surgery Signs and tests Coagulation studies involving many tests are performed if the person tested is the first one in the family to have a bleeding disorder. Once the defect has been identified, other family members will need less testing to diagnose the disorder. All Rights Reserved. All rights reserved.