Inhibitors in German Hemophilia A Patients Treated with a Double Virus Inactivated Factor VIII Concentrate Bind to the C2 Domain of FVIII Light Chain

R. Laub; Di M. Giambattista; P. Fondu; H.-H. Brackmann; H. Lenk; E. L. Saenko; M. Felch; D. Scandella

doi:10.1055/s-0037-1614415

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 1999; 81(01): 39-44
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1614415

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Inhibitors in German Hemophilia A Patients Treated with a Double Virus Inactivated Factor VIII Concentrate Bind to the C2 Domain of FVIII Light Chain

R. Laub

¹From the Red Cross, Brussels, Belgium

,

Di M. Giambattista

¹From the Red Cross, Brussels, Belgium

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P. Fondu

²Hôpital Universitaire Brugmann, Brussels

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H.-H. Brackmann

³University of Bonn, Germany, Rockville, MD, USA

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H. Lenk

⁴University of Leipzig, Germany, Rockville, MD, USA

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E. L. Saenko

⁵American Red Cross, Rockville, MD, USA

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M. Felch

⁵American Red Cross, Rockville, MD, USA

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D. Scandella

⁵American Red Cross, Rockville, MD, USA

› Author Affiliations

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