Because of this deficiency, hemophiliacs are susceptible to serious blood loss following minor cuts or tooth extraction. |
Novo Nordisk will use the factory to manufacture NovoSeven, which is used to treat hemophiliacs who cannot use traditional treatments to stop bleeding. |
The products were generally used to treat hemophiliacs, but they were also used as coagulating agents for treating newborns and traffic-accident victims, the officials said. |
The deposits called cryoprecipitates are found to have much greater clotting power than plasma and given to hemophiliacs to stop bleeding episodes. |