Coronavirus: severity of infection may depend on von Willebrand blood factor
Von Willebrand factor (or von Willebrand factor) is one of the essential elements of hemostasis. Among its various functions, it is responsible for recruiting platelets in order to cause their aggregation when a blood vessel is injured. Several studies have shown that in the case of an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the vessels undergo multiple microdamages, causing a phenomenon of massive coagulation and sometimes leading to a thrombosis; a complication in which the von Willebrand factor plays an important role.