Von Willebrand Factor Articles

Metastatic testicular cancer (TC) can be cured with bleomycin, etoposide and cisplatin (BEP) chemotherapy. This comes at the price of an increased cardiovascular disease risk, not only years afterwards, but also during and shortly after chemotherapy.

Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura have traditionally been considered separate entities. Defects in the regulation of the complement alternative pathway occur in atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, and defects in the cleavage of von Willebrand factor (VWF)-multimers arise in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.