[Severe deficiency of von Willebrand factor (VWF)-cleaving protease (ADAMTS-13) activity (<5% of normal) is a specific finding for acute idiopathic thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), a disorder that presents as thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, and often organ dysfunction such as neurological disturbances or renal failure, and fever.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE