Article
Laboratory screening of thrombophilia. Evaluation of the diagnostic efficacy of a global test to detect congenital deficiencies of the protein C anticoagulant pathway.
Blood coagulation & fibrinolysis : an international journal in haemostasis and thrombosis - 1 Sept 1998
Tripodi A, Akhavan S, Asti D, Faioni E M, Mannucci P M
Abstract excerpt
Clinical laboratories are at present confronted with increasing demands for thrombophilia work-up, which may seriously overwhelm their capacity. Recently, methods able to investigate the protein C anticoagulant pathway globally have been proposed. In this study we investigated the reliability of...
Topics
- Activated Protein C Resistance
- Antithrombins
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Factor V
- Humans
- Mutation
- Protein C
- Protein C Deficiency
- Protein S Deficiency
- Thrombophilia
- Thrombosis
- Venous Thrombosis