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ID DOID:11249
Name vitamin K deficiency bleeding
Definition 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemorrhagic_disease_of_the_newborn, https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007320.htm, https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/vitamink/facts.html, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5592002/
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ICD10CM:E56.1

ICD9CM:269.0

MESH:D014813

NCI:C99108

SNOMEDCT_US_2023_03_01:52675005

UMLS_CUI:C0042880

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deficiency of vitamin K [EXACT]

vitamin K deficiency [EXACT]

vitamin K deficiency hemorrhagic disease [EXACT]

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is_a nutritional deficiency disease

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