Treatment of recurrent gastrointestinal haemorrhage in a patient with von Willebrand's disease with administration of octreotide LAR and propranolol.
We report a patient with von Willebrand' s disease who had had recurrent and life-threatening bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract. Despite extensive investigation, no apparent cause of haemorrhage was identified. He was successfully treated with combined administration of octreotide LAR (long-acting release) and propranolol. This is the first report on the successful use of octreotide LAR in a patient with von Willebrand' s disease.
Krikis
Napoleon
N
Second Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Ippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Tziomalos
Konstantinos
K
Perifanis
Vasilios
V
Vakalopoulou
Sofia
S
Karagiannis
Asterios
A
Garypidou
Vasilia
V
Harsoulis
Fedon
F