A nutritional deficiency disease that is characterized by easy bleeding due to an inability to form blood clots caused by vitamin K deficiency, occurs most commonly in newborns, and has_material_basis_in deficiency of vitamin K secondary to liver prematurity, lack of vitamin K in a breastmilk diet, largely sterile gut, malabsorption, diarrhea, chronic illness, menorrhagia, chronic kidney disease, and some medications. (DO)
von Willebrand's disease +
Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome +
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome +
Wolman disease +
Synonyms
Exact Synonyms:
deficiency of vitamin K
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hemorrhagic disease of newborn
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newborn hemorrhagic disease
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newborn hemorrhagic diseases
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vitamin K deficiencies
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vitamin K deficiency
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vitamin K deficiency hemorrhagic disease