Immune Thrombocytopenia and Type 1 von Willebrand Disease in a Patient With a Femoral Fracture: A Case Report

This article describes the case of a complex medical patient with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and von Willebrand disease (vWD), among other comorbidities, who underwent urgent orthopedic surgery and discusses the specificities of the perioperative anesthetic management of these bleeding disorders. Immune thrombocytopenia is an acquired autoimmune condition characterized by a diminished platelet count due to immune destruction. vWD is the most common inherited bleeding disorder, in which there is a defect of von Willebrand factor, a fundamental component of the hemostatic process. By compromising primary hemostasis, both conditions carry an important hemorrhagic risk in surgical patients, which is compounded by their coexistence.