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How would you approach the treatment of patients with von Willebrand disease or hemophilia A previously managed with intranasal DDAVP during the recall?

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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology · St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

There are two separate questions here, one is easy and one complicated.

Desmopressin challenges can be performed with intravenous desmopressin, 0.3 mcg/kg. It is not necessary to challenge a patient with IV who previously responded well to the nasal preparation, in my view.

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