vitamin K deficiency bleeding (DOID:11249)
Alliance: disease page
Synonyms: deficiency of vitamin K; vitamin K deficiency; vitamin K deficiency hemorrhagic disease
Alt IDs: ICD10CM:E56.1, ICD9CM:269.0, MESH:D014813, NCI:C99108, UMLS_CUI:C0042880
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.