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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Deficiency manifestation of vitamin ‘k’

Vitamin ‘k’ defines generally occurs due to its defective absorption from intestine or due to the inhibition of intestinal bacteria as happens in antibiotic and sulphonamic therapy. Following are the important deficiency manifestation.
1) Hypoprothrombinemia in which the blood clotting time is prolonged.
2) Uncontrolled haemorrhages.

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