I have an idea. Instead of "armchair diagnosis" by non trained non-physicians, lets see what a few TRAINED Hematologists, who know HOW to diagnose Hemophilia, Â have to say:
"History's most famous person with haemophilia, the Tsarevitch Alexei, had almost reached his likely lifespan of 20 years when he was murdered in 1917. His frequent crippling haemarthroses and muscle bleeds are obvious from photographs."
Haemophilia -- darkest hours before the dawn authored by Alison M Street, Head, Haematology Unit, Alfred Healthcare Group, Melbourne, VIC and Henry Ekert Senior Consultant, Department of Haematology/Oncology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC Â in
Medical Journal of Australia,1996; 164: 453
" Haemophilia is sometimes referred to as the Royal disease. Queen Victoria had no ancestors with the condition but soon after the birth of her eighth child, Leopold, in 1853 it became evident that he had haemophilia. Queen Victoria was thus an example of how the condition can arise as a spontaneous mutation. Leopold's medical condition was reported in the British Medical Journal in 1868...It also subsequently transpired that two of Queen Victoria's own daughters, Alice and Beatrice, were carriers of haemophilia. The condition was transmitted through them to several Royal families in Europe, including Spain and Russia. Perhaps the most famous affected individual was the son of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. "The history of haemophilia" by Dr. P.L.F. Giangrande, Nuffield Dept. of Medicine, Oxford University, citing "The history of haemophilia." Ingram GIC. Journal of Clinical Pathology 29: 469-479 (1976)
"For a month or so all seemed well with little Alexis, but it was then noticed that the Tsarevitch was bleeding excessively from the umbilicus (a relatively uncommon feature of haemophilia.  At first the diagnosis was not admitted by the parents, but eventually the truth had to be faced although even then only by the doctors and immediate family. Alix was grief stricken: ‘she hardly knew a day’s happiness after she realized her boy’s fate’. As a newly diagnosed carrier she dwelt morbidly on the fact that she had transmitted the disease. ... Whilst the army commanders begged the Tsar to stand down, Nicholas questioned his physician, Dr Federov,about his son’s future. Federov summed up the state of haemophilia in the early twentieth century. ‘Science teaches us, Sire, that this is an incurable disease. Yet those who are afflicted will sometimes reach an advanced old age. Still, Alexis Nicolaivich is at the mercy of an accident’. "
THE HISTORY OF HAEMOPHILIA IN THE ROYAL FAMILIES OF EUROPE, British Journal of Haematology, 1999, 105, 25–32.Dr Richard F. Stevens, Consultant Paediatric Haematologist, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester.
"Although the type of hemophilia, hemophilia A or hemophilia B, is not known, the occurrence of hemophilia in the family of the last Tsar of Russia and other descendants of Queen Victoria through the maternal lines is well documented (McKusick, 1965)." Â Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, Johns Hopkins University.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?/cmd=Search&db=OMIM&doptcmdl=Detailed&term=?306700#306700_HISTORYI could go on. Oh, but wait, these people DON'T KNOW what they are talking about, that's the point of this discussion I think. Â
