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coagulation
(redirected from Clotting factors)

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When blood vessels are injured, clotting factors help the platelets stick together to plug cuts and breaks at the site of the injury to stop the bleeding," Taher explained.
That said, the disease is typically controlled by adding the missing clotting factors to the patient''s blood.
Plasma from men was used in transfusions, while plasma from women went into the manufacture of clotting factors or immune globulin.
 
 
 
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