Spinal Epidural Hematoma Following Cupping Glass Treatment in an Infant With Hemophilia A

Abstract

A 6 months old infant, diagnosed with a rare mutation causing severe hemophilia A, presented with spinal epidural hematoma. Parents later admitted the infant had glass cupping therapy performed within 2 weeks of the onset of symptoms. The rare mutation, rare bleeding complication, and the eventual course of therapy applied in this case will be discussed in our case report.

Spinal epidural hematoma in a child with hemophilia A with high titer inhibitors and follow-up with prophylactic emicizumab: case report and literature review

“…Of the surgical cases, six (50%) were neurologically intact after surgery [27][28][29][30][31][32], four (33%) had a neurological sequela [33][34][35][36], and two (17%) died [37,38]. The conservative approach was chosen for 21 patients, from which 19 (90%) were neurologically intact after intervention with factor replacement [5,8,23,30,[39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52], two (10%) had some kind of sequela, and none died [10,53]. Of all the cases, 17 (62%) of them had severe hemophilia.…”