Abstract
Patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET), who frequently have bleeding complications, may manifest an excessive prolongation of the bleeding time (BT) after ingestion of aspirin (ASA). The reason for this excessive prolongation of the BT is unknown, but it is attributed to qualitative platelet defects. Since patients with ET may also have acquired abnormalities of plasma and platelet von Willebrand factor (vWF), we questioned whether the excessive prolongation of the BT by ASA was related to changes in either plasma or platelet vWF. To that end, we studied BT and plasma and platelet vWF in ten ET patients, ten patients with reactive thrombocytosis (RT), and ten normal individuals, both before and after administration of 500 mg ASA for 7 days. In a second study, the effect of DDAVP infusion on plasma vWF in relation to the BT was studied in ten normal individuals and ten ET patients after treatment with 100 mg ASA for 3 days. In the first study, treatment with ASA resulted in a significant prolongation of the BT in normal subjects, RT patients, and ET patients. However, in five ET patients an excessive (> 2 SD) prolongation of the BT by ASA was observed. Although ASA induced no direct changes in either plasma or platelet vWF...Continue Reading
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