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Thromboelastography identifies children with rare bleeding disorders and predicts bleeding phenotype.
Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia - 1 Jan 2015
Zia A N, Chitlur M, Rajpurkar M, Ozgonenel B, Lusher J, Callaghan J H, Callaghan M U
Abstract excerpt
Rare bleeding disorders (RBDs) comprise 3-5% of all congenital bleeding disorders. They can evade typical coagulation screening tests and there is a poor correlation between laboratory results and bleeding phenotype. Thromboelastography (TEG) measures coagulation globally in whole blood samples. The aims of this study were to evaluate the utility of TEG as an adjunct to the routine screening tests employed for...
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