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Since 1980, an increased incidence of late onset hemorrhagic disease of the newborn has been noted in the Federal Republic of Germany. Details of these cases have been collected and the clinical data thoroughly analyzed by Sutor et al. [1,2]. The initially mysterious vitamin K deficient bleedings affected fully breast-fed infants who seemed in good health during the first three to seven weeks of life. In 1985 we described decreased absorption of vitamin K in an infant with late vitamin K deficiency and were able to relate this—as in some other cases—to minimal cholestasis as an underlying pathogenetic mechanism [3,4].
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Göbel, U., von Kries, R., Petrich, C. (1991). Vitamin K Prophylaxis and Late Onset Hemorrhagic Disease of the Newborn in West Germany During 1988. In: Suzuki, S., Hathaway, W.E., Bonnar, J., Sutor, A.H. (eds) Perinatal Thrombosis and Hemostasis. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-65871-9_26
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