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Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada

In their new, 10,000-square foot, state-of-the-art facility, Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada offers new hope to children with inherited blood disorders and their families. Founded by Jonathan Bernstein, M.D., the Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada works as part of a nationwide network of more than 130 similar treatment centers. Like the others, the Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada lowers the cost of care, mortality, hospitalization rates, and time lost from school for the patients with blood disorders. Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada provides care and support for all children in the region with inherited blood conditions, cancer, and rheumatic conditions. Some of its support funding comes from federal sources and private contributions, and the Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada never turns patients away due to the inability to pay. The Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada serves as a branch of Children’s Specialty Center of Nevada, a larger regional multi-specialty care center, and is partnered with Cure 4 The Kids Foundation, a nonprofit charitable corporation that focuses on research into the control, treatment, cure, and prevention of pediatric diseases – particularly inherited blood illnesses and cancer. In concert with the Foundation, Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada ensures that all kids in the region have access to care regardless of insurance status or ability to pay. The Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada offers hope, treatment, and advanced pediatric care for children facing childhood diseases like cancer and childhood rheumatic conditions. The focus at Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada is on pediatric medicine, and the care providers are pediatric specialists who recognize the unique healthcare needs of children as well as the psychosocial aspects of childhood diseases that affect the patients and their families.


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  • von Willebrand Disease (vWD)
    June, 2011
    The Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada is part of the Children’s Specialty Center of Nevada, founded in 2007 by board-certified pediatric hematology-oncology expert Dr. Jonathan Bernstein. Under the care of highly qualified health specialists, the Children’s Specialty Center’s patients receive treatment for inherited blood disorders such as hemophilia and von Willebrand Disease (vWD).

    Similar in effect, vWD is more common and milder than hemophilia, afflicting both males and females, rather than just males. Named after the Finnish pediatrician, Erik Adolf von Willebrand, who identified the disease in 1926, vWD involves an inability of the patient’s blood to clot normally. This is caused either by a lack of certain blood clotting proteins, or by proteins that don’t function normally. This deficient protein is called von Willebrand factor and, in unaffected people, it effectively blinds platelets together when bleeding occurs, staunching the flow.

    vWD is classified into three types, and each type has a unique treatment regime. Type 1 vWD involves low levels of von Willebrand factor, often accompanied by low levels of another clotting agent, factor VIII. This is the mildest form of vWD and affects about 75% of vWD sufferers. Type 2 vWD involves von Willebrand factor that doesn’t perform its functions properly, due to gene mutation. This type of vMD is split into several sub-types that require different treatments. Type 3 vWD is the most serious kind and also the rarest, involving sufferers with no von Willebrand factor at all and low levels of factor VIII.

    Type 1 vWD is mild in nature, and those afflicted may not actually notice the effects of the disease except in the cases of tooth extraction, surgery, or traumatic bodily injury. On the other hand, Type 3 vMD can lead to life-threatening bleeding if left unattended. Fortunately, early diagnosis and a consistent regime of treatment in children can minimize the disruptive effects of vMD, allowing even Type 3 vMD sufferers to lead active and healthy lives. Visit the Hemophilia Treatment Center of Nevada website at www.cure4thekids.com/hemophilia.asp for more details on treatment options for this inherited condition.