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Acute paediatrics
Atypical bleeding due to idiopathic thrombocytopenia in association with low factor VIII levels
  1. M F Riordan1,
  2. F G H Hill2
  1. 1Department of Paediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, PO Box 208064, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520-8064, USA
  2. 2Department of Haematology, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr F G H Hill, Department of Haematology, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK;
    mriordan{at}doctors.org.uk

Abstract

Two children with bleeding from idiopathic thrombocytopenia with low factor VIII levels are described. The presence of a double haemostatic defect in an otherwise healthy individual presenting with bleeding is extremely rare. In both cases the atypical bleeding raised the suspicion of dual pathology.

  • haemophilia
  • idiopathic thrombocytopenia
  • coagulation screen
  • factor VIII
  • FVIII:C
  • FVIII, factor VIII
  • ITP, idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.87.3.227

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