Girl who bleeds without being cut baffles doctors


	Girl who bleeds without being cut baffles doctors

hitchhiker08

10-1-2008 5:52 AM

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platelet, blood, clotting, barts hospital, uk, type ii von willebrand disease, coagulation, healthcare, india

hitchhiker08 says:

A rare medical problem ...

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10-1-2008 6:18 AM

mona

i do hope they find a cure for her. or at least a way of alleviating/suppressing the symptoms.

10-1-2008 9:01 AM

skwirlinator

Stigmata

10-1-2008 12:44 PM

shaor

poor kid!

10-1-2008 9:42 PM

tanyamm

They are strange in India. A baby can be born deformed and they worship like some kind of God yet let a poor girl have a blood condition that can be treated and they call her evil incarnate.

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Villagers near her home in Uttar Pradesh, India, believe she must be cursed 
  and shout cruel things in the street.
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Indian medics now believe her condition is an extreme version of a rare blood 
  platelet disorder for which they cannot find a cure.
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"It didn't hurt. But it was scary and messy, and my friends thought it 
  was disgusting.
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Finally doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi 
  decided she has Type 2 Platelet Disorder, a rare condition where blood is 
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However, a blood specialist in Britain came up with a different diagnosis and 
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Consultant haematologist Dr Drew Provan, of Barts Hospital in London, said:
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