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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14218 | DOI Listing |
Cureus
July 2025
Third Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, JPN.
Autoimmune acquired factor V deficiency (AiFVD) is a rare bleeding disorder characterized by the presence of inhibitors against coagulation factor V (factor V). It can manifest with a wide spectrum of clinical severity, from asymptomatic to life-threatening bleeding. Various underlying causes have been reported, including malignancies, autoimmune disorders, infections, and antibiotics.
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July 2025
Department of Molecular Patho-Biochemistry and Patho-Biology, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan.
Coagulation factor XIII (FXIII) is an essential protein that stabilizes the hemostatic plug formed in the final stage of the coagulation reaction and controls its dissolution. In the blood, it exists as a heterotetramer consisting of A subunit dimers and B subunit dimers. Genetic defects in each subunit result in a congenital deficiency, which causes fatal or mild bleeding symptoms.
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September 2025
Department of Molecular Patho-biochemistry and Patho-biology, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan.
Autoimmune acquired coagulation factor deficiency (AiCFD) represents a rare coagulation disorder that primarily affects older people and sometimes causes fatal bleeding; therefore, clinicians need to consider this when encountering patients with unexplained bleeding. AiCFD is caused by the production of autoantibodies against one's own coagulation factor, which markedly inhibit its function, or accelerate its clearance from plasma, resulting in hemostatic failure. The plasma of affected patients shows various abnormal findings, because anti-coagulation factor autoantibodies are polyclonal, and each clone has different properties.
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February 2025
Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism, Rheumatology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan.
A 73-year-old Japanese man with chronic kidney disease had no history of abnormal clotting or bleeding. Six days after receiving his third dose of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine (BNT162b2; Pfizer/BioNTech), blood tests showed a marked prolongation of the prothrombin time-international normalised ratio and activated partial thromboplastin time, as well as a decrease in factor V (FV) activity. Three months later, he required dialysis owing to worsening heart and renal failure.
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February 2025
The Department of Molecular Patho-Biochemistry and Patho-Biology, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata, 990-9585, Japan.
A 63-year-old man, previously diagnosed with multiple autoimmune diseases, developed life-threatening bleeding after gastrectomy for stomach cancer. He survived due to treatment with factor XIII (FXIII) concentrates immediately after his FXIII antigen (Ag) level was reported to be < 5% of normal. Detailed examination by the Japanese Collaborative Research Group on autoimmune coagulation factor deficiencies revealed the presence of anti-FXIII-A and anti-FXIII-B subunit autoantibodies on immunoblot analyses, and thus autoimmune FXIII deficiency (AiF13D) was diagnosed based on the Japanese and international diagnostic criteria.
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