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I received this question on September 15 from Carolina Vilchez: I am Carolina Vilchez, an Adjunct Professor

Sep 19 2022

Dr. Karen Moser’s Coag Conversation: The DOACs

George Fritsma and guest speaker Karen Moser, MD, Medical Director of the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Laboratory at ARUP Laboratories and Associate

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Sep 19 2022

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Dr. Brandon Henry: Coag Conversations: All Three

George Fritsma and guest speaker Brandon Michael Henry, MD, Investigative Pathologist at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

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Dr. William L. Nichols, Jr.

We celebrate the life of Dr. William [Bill] Lawrence Nichols, Jr, who passed away suddenly on September 7, 2022, at his home.

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September 2022 Cheat Sheet

Our September 2022 Cheat Sheet is now available here and will arrive in your mailbox soon. Please provide your feedback and help us list upcoming events.

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September 2022 Quick Question: Specimen Management

Our September 2022 Quick Question asks, "You collect blood for a heparin assay. How soon

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Aug 31 2022

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August 2022 Quick Question: LAC Testing Responses

Our August 2022 Quick Question attracted 34 responses [despite our discouraging “Recaptcha” security function] and asked, “You test for lupus anticoagulant [LAC] using a low-PL PTT reagent and a hex-phase high-PL mix. The mix results are 10 seconds shorter than the first test. What do you conclude?” LAC positive 32% [11] LAC negative 18% [6] […]

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Chromogenic Factor IX Assay Validation

Click below for a poster that was presented at the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Summit of North America [THSNA], August 16–18, 2022 that features a recently released chromogenic factor IX assay: Quinton T, Fraser J, Black KM, Sadeghi-Khomami A. Validation of a new kit for the determination of factor IX activity, Poster 418, Precision BioLogic Inc., […]

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Michigan State University CLS Coag Graduate Course BLD 835

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Sulodexide Improves Long Covid

Here is a breakthrough study from Tunisia indicating the efficacy of sulodexide [Aterina], the oral “fast-moving heparin”-dermatan sulfate formulation, in managing the endothelial dysfunction of and reducing the symptoms associated with Long Covid. Sulodexide is not FDA-approved for Long Covid therapy. Charfeddine S, Ibnhadjamor H, Jdidi J, et al. Sulodexide significantly improves endothelial dysfunction and […]

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Dr. Karen Moser’s Coag Conversation: The DOACs

Dr. Brandon Henry: Coag Conversations: All Three

Dr. William L. Nichols, Jr.

September 2022 Cheat Sheet

September 2022 Quick Question: Specimen Management

August 2022 Quick Question: LAC Testing Responses

Chromogenic Factor IX Assay Validation

Michigan State University CLS Coag Graduate Course BLD 835

Sulodexide Improves Long Covid

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