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We investigated 83 children with hemolytic or thrombocytopenic episodes with or without additional neurologic symptoms or renal failure. The presumed diagnosis was chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP; n\u2009=\u200950), TTP (n\u2009=\u20098), hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS; n\u2009=\u200924), and Evans syndrome (n\u2009=\u20091). A severe deficiency of VWF-CP (\u2264\u20095%) was found in all investigated patients with TTP and in none of those with HUS. Additionally, 2 of 50 patients with a prior diagnosis of ITP were deficient for VWF-CP. Antibodies against VWF-CP were found in 4 children. Mutation analysis of the ADAMTS13 gene in the patients deficient in VWF-CP by direct sequencing of all 29 exons identified 8 different mutations, suggesting the hereditary form of TTP in 1 patient with ITP, in the patient with Evans syndrome, and in 5 of the 8 patients with TTP. The phenotype of TTP in childhood can be rather variable. 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