A fact from Erik Adolf von Willebrand appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 July 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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The lead is fine as is, perhaps I would add some more information regarding other medical achievements aside from discovering the disease/syndrome.
Did he lend his medical support to Folkhälsan, or just his political support?
For the Personal Life section, I would remove the part about his upbringing, and tack it onto the education section (which would be renamed "Early life and education", and leave the rest as "Personal life and death"); that would be more in line with Wikipedia norms.
...collecting botanical, lepidopterological and ornithological specimen..." Specimens.
Lastly, what were the circumstances of the 1957 von Willebrand disease appurtenance?
Good biography here, just some small things to clear up. QatarStarsLeague (talk) 17:00, 24 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
I have added some detail on his non-hematologic works in the lead.
The source states "wholehearted support". It does not specify the type of support. The source later on mentions that his work on the bleeding condition of the Åland islanders was "of greater than medical interest" as it was a hereditary disorder that affected the Swedish-speaking minority population. I could include this if you think it is relevant.
It was noticed in the 1950s that patients with vWD also had an antihemophilic globulin (AHG) deficiency. This AHG deficiency was able to be corrected by Cohn fraction I-0. The prolonged bleeding time in vWD was also corrected by the infusion of fraction 1-0, which indicated vWD is caused by a deficiency of a plasma factor. AHG was studied in the early 1970s and found to be a very large globulin, actually consisting of two distinct proteins: factor VIII and vWF. I am not sure how much detail on this should be included as Von Willebrand was no longer alive when this research was conducted. Hrodvarsson (talk) 19:18, 24 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Only if the discoveries made after his death specifically cited his work as seminal. QatarStarsLeague (talk) 23:44, 24 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
@QatarStarsLeague: Von Willebrand's work was not seminal in the research. vWF was for a brief period referred to as "factor VIII-related protein". Hrodvarsson (talk) 21:49, 25 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
