Functional von Willebrand factor assays are not predictive for the absence of highest-molecular weight von Willebrand factor multimers in patients with aortic-valve stenosis [1]

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 465-466

  Sucker, Christoph ^a   Feindt, Peter ^a   Zotz, Rainer B ^a   Stockschlaeder, Marcus ^a   Scharf, Rüdiger E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; GLYCOPROTEIN IB; POLYMER; RISTOCETIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITOMETRY; HUMAN; LETTER; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 23744435160     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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