Phenotype Report on Patients with Congenital Factor V Deficiency in Southern Iran: Recent Ten Years' Experience

This study aimed to investigate clinical symptoms in patients with congenital factor V (FV) deficiency and the relationship between phenotype and factor activity level. Thirteen patients with congenital FV deficiency were investigated and the factor activity level and first clinical presentations were studied for each patient. The most common first signs and symptoms were post-surgery, post-partum, post-circumcision, and post-traumatic bleeding (30.76%), followed by easy bruising in 23.10% of the patients. The median age at the onset of clinical signs was 18 (range: 1-53) years. Patients were categorized into two groups of major and minor bleeding based on their first clinical bleeding symptoms. There was not a significant difference between the two groups with regard to factor activity level, age at diagnosis, prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, and international normalized ratio (p>0.05). There is a discrepancy between plasma FV activity level and the severity of clinical presentations.