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Distinguishing between type 2B and pseudo-von Willebrand disease and its clinical importance.
British journal of haematology - 1 Jun 2006
Enayat Mohammad S, Guilliatt Andrea M, Lester William, Wilde Jonathan T, Williams Michael D, Hill Frank G H
Abstract excerpt
Pseudo-von Willebrand disease (p-VWD) and type 2B von Willebrand disease (VWD) have similar phenotypic parameters and clinical symptoms, but different aetiologies. Fourteen individuals from five families with a historical diagnosis of type 2B VWD but with no mutation in the von Willebrand factor gene were re-investigated for the possibility of p-VWD, using platelet aggregation in the presence of cryoprecipitate....
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