von Willebrand's disease and menorrhagia: Prevalence, diagnosis, and management
β Scribed by Jody L. Kujovich
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 101 KB
- Volume
- 79
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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## Summary A 66-year-old man is reported who was found to have acquired von Willebrand's disease, which presented when the patient was 63 with iron deficiency anaemia and gastrointestinal bleeding. He subsequently bled from various sites in the gastrointestinal tract including an angiodysplasia of
Acquired von Willebrand's disease (AvWD), an adult-onset bleeding diathesis, has most commonly been found in patients with an underlying lymphoproliferative disease or monoclonal gammopathy. Other malignancies, autoimmune diseases, hypothyroidism, and drugs have also been associated with AvWD. We ha