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. 2020 Jun 25;18(8):1922–1933. doi: 10.1111/jth.14928

Table 2.

Patients’ clinical characteristics by clinical setting (excluding prophylaxis)

Details cohort Bleeding episodes Surgical procedures and childbirths Invasive procedures
Major Minor Major Minor
Patients (characteristics at inclusion)
Number of patients, N 83 105 27
38 70 50 66
Male/female 19/19 35/35 19/31 23/43 10/17
Median age (range; years) 33 (0‐77) 30 (0‐77) 32 (2‐83) 34 (0‐77) 48 (1‐83)
VWF:RCo ≤ 15 IU/dL, N (%) 35 (92.1) 66 (94.3) 36 (72.0) 45 (68.2) 23 (85.2)
FVIII:C ≤ 40 IU/dL, N (%) 31 (81.6) 58 (82.9) 32 (64.0) 44 (66.7) 22 (81.5)
FVIII:C < 20 IU/dL, N (%) 23 (60.5) 38 (54.3) 16 (32.0) 27 (40.9) 12 (44.4)
Events (characteristics at event)
Number of clinical events, n 743 140 47
67 676 57 83
By patient's age
<12 years, n (%) 16 (23.9) 138 (20.4) 7 (12.3) 8 (9.6) 12 (25.5)
12‐64 years, n (%) 45 (67.2) 507 (75.0) 39 (68.4) 70 (84.3) 26 (55.3)
≥65 years, n (%) 6 (9.0) 31 (4.6) 11 (19.3) 5 (6.0) 9 (19.1)
By VWD type
Type 1, n (%) 5 (7.5) 49 (7.2) 12 (21.1) 21 (25.3) 8 (17.0)
Type 2, n (%) 36 (53.7) 298 (44.1) 34 (59.6) 47 (56.6) 21 (44.7)
Type 3, n (%) 25 (37.3) 328 (48.5) 10 (17.5) 12 (14.5) 18 (38.3)
Not classified, n (%) 1 (1.5) 1 (0.1) 1 (1.8) 3 (3.6) 0 (0.0)
By basal plasma levels
VWF:RCo ≤ 15 IU/dL, n (%) 63 (94.0) 667 (98.6) 41 (71.9) 54 (65.0) 41 (87.2)
FVIII:C ≤ 40 IU/dL, n (%) 56 (83.6) 541 (80.0) 36 (63.1) 54 (65.0) 40 (85.1)
FVIII:C < 20 IU/dL, n (%) 40 (59.7) 429 (63.5) 17 (29.8) 31 (37.3) 22 (46.8)
Total number of infusions 783 1462 934 276 103
Total number of exposure days 608 1337 676 198 92

Abbreviations: FVIII:C, factor VIII coagulant activity; N, number of patients; n, number of clinical events; VWD, von Willebrand disease; VWF:RCo, von Willebrand factor ristocetin cofactor activity.