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Zhang HF1,
Li GS1, Tian XQ1, Shearer MJ2 1 Department
of Pediatrics, Second Hospital, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang,
China 2 The Vitamin
K Units, St Thomas’ Hospital, UK Methods:
Form 1982 to 1998, the amount of documents of late VKDB aired
by Chinese medical journals. We collected 3970 cases of late VKDB. Most
infants were previously healthy and had no hepatic or other underlying
disease. All infants hadn’t receiving vitamin k prophylaxis. Results:
A total of 3970 cases of late VKDB were analyzed (see Table).
The male was 2874 cases while the female was 1079 cases and the male:
female was 2.62:1. In the total cases, exclusive breast-fed infants were
3555(89%); predominant breast- fed infants were 300(8%), and the
formula-fed were115 (3%) The peak age was 4 –8 weeks (3148, 79%), 316(8%)
cases were inferior to 4 weeks and 506 (13%) cases went beyond 8 weeks. The
majority (92%), 3674 out of 3970 cases, occurred to intracranial
haemorrhage. The numbers of death were 891(22%). Conclusion: As there is not conventional vitamin
k prophylaxis, VKDB is still a problem. The figures support even more previous
impression that the incidence of late in Asia is higher than in Europe.
China has a higher incidence.
LATE VITAMIN
K DEFICIENCY BLEEDING IN CHINA
Objective:
To expatiate in the
feature of late vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) in infants of China.