factor X deficiency

A blood coagulation disease that is characterized by the partial or complete absence of factor X activity in the blood.

Signs and symptoms

• Prolonged prothrombin time
• Reduced factor X activity
• Prolonged bleeding after surgery
• Menorrhagia
• Intramuscular hematoma
• Joint hemorrhage
• Intracranial hemorrhage
• Epistaxis
• Gingival bleeding
• Prolonged partial thromboplastin time

Also known as: disease, Stuart-Prower