Role in Disease
The existence of HMWK was hypothesised in the 1970s when several patients were described with a deficiency of a class of plasma protein and a prolonged bleeding time and partial thromboplastin time (PTT).
As in deficiency of the associated Hageman factor, there is no increased risk of bleeding.Read more about this topic: High-molecular-weight Kininogen
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