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Platelet Function Testing

Nov 14 2024
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Coag Conversation: ITP and Platelet Functional Disorders, Part 2

Here is the second of our three-part series, “A Coag Conversation: ITP and Inherited Platelet Function Disorders.” featuring Michele Lambert, MD, MSTR, interviewed by George Fritsma and sponsored by BioMedica Diagnostics, Inc.  Dr. Lambert is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Pearlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Pediatric Hematologist at the Children’s Hospital […]
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Platelet Function Testing
Oct 15 2024
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Coag Conversation: ITP and Platelet Functional Disorders

Introducing “A Coag Conversation: ITP and Inherited Platelet Function Disorders-Part One.” a three-part series featuring Michele Lambert, MD, MSTR, interviewed by George Fritsma and sponsored by BioMedica Diagnostics, Inc. Dr. Lambert is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Pearlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Pediatric Hematologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In […]
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Platelet Function Testing
Aug 23 2024
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A Molecular Approach to Assess Platelet Hyperreactivity

Friend Ed Groenendal forwarded this UPI summary of a molecular approach correlating evidence of hyperresponsive platelets to major adverse cardiac or limb events. The investigators started with aggregometry-defined platelet hyperreactivity to apply a transcriptome-based platelet reactivity expression score (PRESS). Click below to see the detailed open-access article describing the development and application of the PRESS. […]
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Antiplatelet Therapy
Apr 30 2024
george

April 2024 QQ Summary: MYH9 Mutation

Our April 2024 Quick Question, “What PLT production abnormality is an MYH9 gene mutation?” attracted 26 responses. Here’s the distribution: Thrombocytopenia with absent radii [TAR]: 4 [15%] Bernard-Soulier syndrome [BSS]: 2 [7%] Immune thrombocytopenia [ITP]: 1 [4%] Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: 1 [4%] May-Hegglin disorder: 18 [70%] The production abnormalities are associated with mild to severe bleeding. […]
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Bleeding Disorders
Feb 2 2024
george

January 2024 Quick Question Response: Platelet Function Tests

Fritsma Factor’s January 2024 Quick Question asks, “What platelet function test do you use?” Our 43 participants responded… Light transmittance aggregometry: 15 [35%] Whole blood aggregometry: 7 [16%] Lumiaggregometry: 8 [19%] Bleeding time: 0 PFA 100/200: 13 [30%] Presuming that those who chose the lumiaggregometry entry perform theirs on an impedance-based whole blood aggregometer, we […]
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George Fritsma MS MLS

George Fritsma is a medical laboratory scientist, educator, and author. George  is a member of the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis, the International Society for Laboratory Hematology, and the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science.

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Which is NOT an endogenous coag control protein?