How do you counsel patients with minimally symptomatic factor VII deficiency about procedures and periprocedural management?
When do you consider prophylaxis given that factor VII levels do not correlate well with bleeding symptoms?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
Partial Factor VII deficiency is relatively easy to discover (long PT/INR) but the bleeding risk tends to be over-estimated. The available evidence (Peyvandi et al., PMID 22321862) suggests that significant bleeding is uncommon unless the factor VII level is less than about 15% of normal. I would th...