Epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of von Willebrand disease in India

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 595-601

  Ghosh, Kanjaksha ^a   Shetty, Shrimati ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

diagnosis; epidemiology; India; management; von Willebrand disease

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; ATORVASTATIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; DANAZOL; DESMOPRESSIN; ESTRADIOL; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; RISTOCETIN; THALIDOMIDE; THYROID HORMONE; TRANEXAMIC ACID; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CRYOPRECIPITATE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE MUTATION; HEMOPHILIA A; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; INDIA; MENORRHAGIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE AGGLUTINATION; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE;

DEAMINO ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; FACTOR VIII; GENETIC TESTING; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; INDIA; MUTATION; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASES; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 81755171919     PISSN: 00946176     EISSN: 10989064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1281048     Document Type: Article

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