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There is no complete cure for Hemophilia A at this time. There are medications you can take to bring your factor level up when you are expereiencing a bleed or as propholaticly on a basis which your Dr. can determine depending on your factor level.

2006-11-02 23:37:55 · answer #1 · answered by dreamgirl_deb 2 · 0 0

I'm over 10 years late in answering this but what the hell...

There is currently no medication that will cure it. There are treatments for acute bleeding (i.e. supplemental Factor VIII or IX) that will stop the bleeding by bringing serum levels of the relevant clotting factor up to normal levels but these only last around 24 hours or so. Regular injections (usually every second day for severe Haemophilia) are required to maintain those levels for any extended period of time.

The only known cure for Haemophilia is a liver transplant. Some Haemophiliacs have had this done, not because it would cure them (that's just a bonus), but because they caught Hepatitis C from one of their Factor VIII or IX injections and it destroyed their original liver.

There has been some experimental gene therapy treatments trialled but they have, as yet, been too dangerous and/or ineffective to proceed beyond human trials. However, as technology and scientific knowledge of the genome increases, this may change in the near-ish future. Let's hope so.

2016-12-07 13:39:04 · answer #2 · answered by tvsinesperanto 6 · 0 0

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