Figure 3.

Treatment scheme for VWD. The gray boxes indicate laboratory assays and the red and orange boxes indicate treatment options. Treatments in the orange boxes should only be used after considering the other possible disorders indicated by an asterisk. Patients who do not fit the diagnostic criteria for VWD but are experiencing bleeding symptoms should be considered for collagen binding defects, platelet function defects, or other mild bleeding disorders. Clinicians should also consider adjunct therapy as needed to alleviate patient symptoms. VWD, von Willebrand disease