Abstracts tagged "von willebrand factor"

Abstract Number: 771 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Von Willebrand Factor Is Localized in the Extravascular Tissue of Patients with Juvenile Scleroderma
Natalia Vasquez-Canizares¹, Beamon Agarwal ², Tamar Rubinstein ³, Dawn Wahezi ⁴ and Morayma Reyes Gil ⁵, ¹Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY, ²GenomeRxUS LLC, Providence, PA, ³Children's Hospital at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ⁴Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, New York, ⁵Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx
Background/Purpose: Von Willebrand Factor (VWF) is a glycoprotein synthesized in endothelial cells and megakaryocytes that has an essential role in primary hemostasis. There is increasing…