Top Medical Specialists in Christmas Disease

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Dec. 23, 2013 - PRLog -- As part of its continued effort to highlight expertise and excellence in healthcare, today Expertscape.com recognizes the top institutions and medical specialists in the world in Christmas disease research and treatment. More commonly known as Hemophilia B, it was named after Stephen Christmas, the first patient diagnosed with the disease in 1952. It is the second most common form of hemophilia, a hereditary bleeding disorder caused by an enzyme deficiency, Factor IX(or the Christmas Factor), that enables coagulation.

Expertscape.com would like to recognize the contribution that these five individual experts and institutions (http://www.expertscape.com/leaders/christmas-disease) have made to advance our ability to understand and treat Christmas disease:

  World Experts – Christmas disease / Hemophilia B
  1.     Dr. Katherine High - University of Pennsylvania
  2.     Dr. Rolf Ljung - Lund University
  3.     Dr. Emerito-Carlos Rodriguez-Merchan - Hospital Universitario La Paz
  4.     Dr. Katherine Ponder - Washington University
  5.     Dr. Donna DiMichele - NIH Bethesda

  World Institutions – Christmas disease / Hemophilia B
  1.     University of Pennsylvania
  2.     Lund University - Sweden
  3.     University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  4.     Hospital Universitario La Paz - Spain
  5.     Universiteit Utrecht - Netherlands

To view Expertscape’s comprehensive results for Christmas disease, covering hundreds of institutions and thousands of specialists worldwide, visit http://www.expertscape.com/ex/hemophilia+b

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