Congenital Afibrinogenemia presenting as antenatal intracranial bleed: a case report.
Congenital afibrinogenemia is a very rare inherited coagulation disorder, characterized by virtual absence of plasma fibrinogen (factor I). There are only about 250 cases reported in the world literature 1. We describe a case of congenital afibrinogenemia which presented as an antenatally detected intracranial bleed.
Hariharan
Gopakumar
G
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Kochi, Kerala, India. gopan2596@yahoo.com
Ramachandran
Sivji
S
Parapurath
Rajiv
R
D000347:Afibrinogenemia / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005340:Fibrinogen / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D020300:Intracranial Hemorrhages / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D005340:Fibrinogen