A Short History of Diagnostic Tests for von Willebrand Disease: In Memory of Barry Firkin (1930 to 2001) and Ted Zimmerman (1937 to 1988)

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By the end of the 1960s, von Willebrand disease (vWD) was accepted as a combined deficiency of factor (F) VIII coagulation and a plasma factor responsible for normal platelet adhesion. Just how these two functions related to each other was unclear, and the diagnostic tests available at the time were poorly reproducible, cumbersome, and unreliable. As a consequence, the condition was poorly delineated from other...

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