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hereditary combined deficiency of vitamin K-dependent clotting factors

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A blood coagulation disease characterized by reduced hepatic gamma-carboxylation of glutamic acid residues of all vitamin K-dependent blood coagulation factors and the anticoagulant factors protein C and protein S resulting in a bleeding tendency that is usual

A blood coagulation disease characterized by reduced hepatic gamma-carboxylation of glutamic acid residues of all vitamin K-dependent blood coagulation factors and the anticoagulant factors protein C and protein S resulting in a bleeding tendency that is usually reversed by oral administration of vitamin K that has_material_basis_in a heritable mutation.

Also known as: VKCFD; hereditary combined deficiency of factors II, VII, IX and X