title: Chronic arthropathy in von Willebrand's disease.
abstract: In von Willebrand's disease, chronic arthropathy is thought to be rare. We present four young patients, three girls and a boy, with severe von Willebrand's disease, who developed chronic progressive arthropathy due to joint haemorrhage, similar to that seen in haemophilia. Chronic joint disease is not as uncommon as is generally assumed.
mesh_terms: D000843:Ankle Joint; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004551:Elbow Joint; D005260:Female; D006395:Hemarthrosis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007592:Joint Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D014842:von Willebrand Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics