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Response to DDAVP in children with von Willebrand disease type 2.
Hamostaseologie - 1 May 2009
Schneppenheim Reinhard, Budde U, Beutel Karin, Hassenpflug W-A, Hauch H, Obser T, Oyen F, Schneppenheim S, Schrum J
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: We have prospectively evaluated the biologic response to desmopressin (DDAVP) in 28 children with type 2 von Willebrand disease (VWD) in correlation with the phenotype and the molecular defect of VWF. The diagnosis of VWD type 2 was mainly based on VWF functional parameters and/or an aberrant VWF multimer pattern. Seventeen different mutations were identified (6 of them novel). No response with...
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