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Coated platelets and severe haemophilia A bleeding phenotype: Is there a connection?
Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia - 1 Jan 2016
Lastrapes K K, Mohammed B M, Mazepa M A, Martin E J, Barrett J C, Massey G V, Kuhn J G, Nolte M E, Hoffman M, Monroe D M, Brophy D F
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INTRODUCTION: Coated platelets are a subpopulation of platelets that possess highly prothrombotic properties. Previous observational data suggest that bleeding phenotype in severe haemophilia A is associated with coated platelet levels. Haemophilia A patients with higher coated platelet levels may have a mild bleeding phenotype; those with lower levels may have a more severe bleeding phenotype. AIM: The aim of...
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