Heyde's syndrome without a decrease in large von Willebrand factor multimers: A case of intestinal bleedings reversed by valve replacement in a patient with aortic stenosis

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 773-774

  Undas, Anetta ^a   Windyga, Jerzy ^b   Bykowska, Ksenia ^b   Dimitrow, Pawel P ^a   Stepien, Ewa ^a   Sadowski, Jerzy ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ANGIODYSPLASIA; AORTA PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIATHERMY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEYDES SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG EDEMA; MELENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLATELET FUNCTION TESTS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 64849115872     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH08-07-0422     Document Type: Article

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