Successful liver transplantation in a patient with severe haemophilia A and a high-titre factor VIII inhibitor

Haemophilia. 2004 Nov;10(6):735-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2516.2004.01030.x.

Abstract

We present the case of a 61-year-old man with severe haemophilia A and a high-titre factor VIII inhibitor who underwent successful orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) for hepatocellular carcinoma. Postoperatively, a modest early anamnestic response to FVIII was followed by immunological tolerance to FVIII. This case illustrates the technical feasibility of OLT in some patients with high-titre inhibitors to FVIII, and suggests that immune tolerance may be induced by endogenously produced FVIII from the transplanted organ.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Blood Loss, Surgical / prevention & control
  • Factor VIII / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Hemophilia A / therapy*
  • Hepatitis C, Chronic / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Liver Transplantation / methods*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged

Substances

  • Factor VIII