Anne de Vaan

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus

observational 2025

Heavy or healthy? Assessing menstrual bleeding and bleeding tendency in Dutch adolescents

Research and practice in thrombosis and haemostasis ·doi:10.1016/j.rpth.2025.103235

BACKGROUND: Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is common in adolescents and may indicate a bleeding disorder. The pictorial blood loss assessment chart (PBAC) defines HMB as a score ≥150, while an elevated self-bleeding assessment tool (self-BA…

observational 2023

Heavy menstrual bleeding in adolescents: incidence, diagnostics, and management practices in primary care

Research and practice in thrombosis and haemostasis ·doi:10.1016/j.rpth.2023.102229

BACKGROUND: Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB), self-reported by 37% of adolescents, can be the first sign of a bleeding disorder (BD) during adolescence. The Dutch general practitioner (GP) guideline demands laboratory diagnostics and referral…