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Discrepancy between IIA phenotype and IIB genotype in a patient with a variant of von Willebrand disease.
Blood - 1 Feb 1994
Ribba A S, Christophe O, Derlon A, Cherel G, Siguret V, Lavergne J M, Girma J P, Meyer D, Pietu G
Abstract excerpt
Type IIA and IIB von Willebrand disease (vWD) result from qualitative abnormalities of von Willebrand factor (vWF) characterized by an absence in plasma of high molecular weight vWF multimers and an abnormal reactivity of vWF towards platelet glycoprotein (GP) Ib, which is decreased in type IIA and increased in type IIB. In this report, we describe the case of a patient having a IIA vWD phenotype associated with...
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