1. [Digestive hemorrhage disclosing an angiodysplasia and von Willebrand disease type 2].
- Author
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Lefrançois C, Dubus L, Maurel J, Chiche L, Lavergne JM, and Borel-Derlon A
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- Aged, Angiodysplasia complications, Colon blood supply, Diverticulum, Colon complications, Humans, Male, Mutation, Missense, Pedigree, Recurrence, von Willebrand Diseases blood, von Willebrand Diseases classification, von Willebrand Diseases complications, von Willebrand Diseases genetics, Angiodysplasia diagnosis, Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage etiology, von Willebrand Diseases diagnosis
- Abstract
The authors report a case of a 76-year-old man, with not past history of abnormal bleeding, who suffered an acute, recurrent, intestinal haemorrhage from extensive angiodysplasia of the colon. Intestinal bleeding and angiodysplasia were associated with a von Willebrand's disease. Genetic analysis showed a point mutation in arginine 611 of the mature von Willebrand's factor subunit (A1 loop) confirming a von Willebrand's disease type 2.
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- 1997
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