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100

This X-linked factor deficiency affects 1 in 5,000 boys and is known as Hemophilia A.


Answer: What is Factor VIII Deficiency?

100

These are small, colorless cell fragments in your blood that help stop bleeding and form clots

Answer: What are platelets?

100

This American organization, founded in 1948, was the first national advocacy group for people with hemophilia and their families.

Answer: What is the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation (NBDF)?

100

This treatment option, newly available within the last few years, allows hemophilia patients to make factor within their own bodies without the need for factor infusions.

Answer: What are gene therapies?

100

This global beverage company, known for its polar bear mascot, is headquartered in Atlanta.

Answer: What is The Coca-Cola Company?

200

This clotting factor, also known as Christmas factor, is deficient in individuals with hemophilia B.

Answer: What is Factor IX?

200

This location in the body is where platelets are made.

Answer: What is the bone marrow? Or bones.

200

The term "hemophilia" is taken from Greek words meaning this.

Answer: What is "love of bleeding" or "affinity for blood?"

200

 ______ type of treatment is taken regularly to prevent bleeds before they happen. (not specific to a brand).

Answer: What is prophylactic treatment?

200

This civil rights leader, known for his nonviolent activism, was born in Atlanta in 1929.

Answer: Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

300

This is the most common bleeding disorder in the United States, which affects men and women equally.

Answer: What is Von Willebrand’s Disease?

300

Platelets are _____ in size than red blood cells.

Answer: What is smaller?

300

The first documented case of hemophilia occurred in this royal family, leading to its nickname "the royal disease."

Answer: What is the House of Windsor, House of Habsburg, or Queen Victoria? 

300

This class of treatments, introduced in the 1990s, replaced the need for factor products isolated from human blood, instead creating factor from cells grown in the lab.

Answer: What are recombinant therapies?

300

This river flows through downtown Atlanta and played a significant role in the city's early development.

Answer: What is the Chattahoochee River?

400

 _______ are created when the body develops an allergic reaction to factor products.

Answer: What are inhibitors?

400

This medication, often used to prevent blood clots, works by stopping platelets from clumping together.

Answer: What is aspirin?

400

This landmark event, occurring in the 1980s, led to significant advancements in blood product safety and the treatment of hemophilia.

Answer: What is the HIV/AIDS crisis in the hemophilia community?

400

This protein is activated to crosslink and form a clot at the completion of the clotting cascade

Answer: What is fibrin?

400

This NFL team, based in Atlanta, plays their home games at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Answer: Who are the Atlanta Falcons?

500

An extremely rare bleeding disorder also known as Stuart–Prower Factor deficiency is a deficiency in this Factor. In healthy people, this factor is made using Vitamin K in the Liver. 

Answer: What is Factor X?

500

This platelet disorder is caused by a deficiency or dysfunction of a protein essential for platelet clumping.

Answer: What is Glanzmann thrombasthenia?

500

The development of this blood product in the 1970s marked a significant advancement in the treatment of hemophilia, providing patients with a more reliable and convenient source of clotting factors.

Answer: What is recombinant factor concentrate?

500

__________ agents, such as tranexamic acid and amicar, help prevent the breakdown of blood clots. They are often used to maintain clots and reduce bleeding, especially during and after surgeries or dental procedures.

Answer: What is Antifibrinolytic (therapies)?

500

This Atlanta-based company is one of the largest providers of telephone services in the United States. Hint: the answer shares some letters with Atlanta.

Answer: What is AT&T?

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