Treatment of traumatic bleeding with recombinant factor VIIa

Lancet. 1999 Nov 27;354(9193):1879. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)05155-7.

Abstract

Surgical intervention failed to stop life-threatening bleeding caused by injury complicated by severe coagulopathy. Administration of recombinant factor VIIa immediately corrected the coagulopathy and bleeding stopped.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Factor VIIa / therapeutic use*
  • Hemorrhage / drug therapy*
  • Hemorrhage / etiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Recombinant Proteins / therapeutic use
  • Wounds, Gunshot / complications*

Substances

  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Factor VIIa