Elvis swiveled them. Jeans hug them. People with hemophilia have pain in them. Hips. Without them, we couldn’t walk or stand. But when hips hurt, life can slow to a crawl.
“My knees were in such bad shape that they were stuck in a 90-degree position or straight out. On more than one flight, I was the last one off,” he says.
For people with hemophilia and hepatitis C, the question is whether new techniques are viable alternatives to liver biopsy, considered the gold standard for diagnosing the extent of liver disease.