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A severe neonatal presentation of factor II deficiency.

Prothrombin deficiency is an autosomal recessive disorder associated with moderate or severe bleeding tendency. In this study, a three-month-old boy with non-consanguineous parents was referred for convulsions because of intracerebral hemorrhage. Standard coagulation tests revealed that the patient's plasma prothrombin activity was 12%, while his father's and mother's levels were 55% and 70%, respectively. Analysis of the prothrombin gene revealed that this patient is a compound heterozygote for two missense mutations: one maternally inherited point mutation in the propeptide (p.Arg4Gln) and one paternally inherited mutation in the kringle-2 (p.Arg220Pro) domain. Structural analysis was performed and confirmed that the resulting mutations were inferred to respectively affect the cleavage of the propeptide from the Gla domain, and the stability of the kringle-2 domain, both resulting in a severe hypoprothrombinemia. In unusually bleeding newborn of non-consanguineous parents, rare severe homozygous bleeding disorders need to be considered to facilitate early diagnosis and treatment.

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