Title: Spinal subdural haematoma in von Willebrand disease
Abstract: a prevalence from 0.6% to 1.2%. 2 Patients with vWD are prone to complain of different bleeding episodes like mucocutaneus bleeding, menorrhagia, gastrointestinal bleeding with angiodysplasia or excessive postsurgical bleeding. 1The infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major comorbidity in patients affected by bleeding disorders, with a prevalence of 39% in vWD patients. 3In patients with chronic HCV infection the combination therapy of pegylated interferon alpha-2b and ribavirin is becoming a standard treatment. 4Recent studies suggested that patients with chronic HCV infection receiving combination therapy were more prone to develop an intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH), indicating