May 2020 Quick Question: D-dimer Results

Our May, 2020 Quick Question, which attracted 70 responses, was, “What assay does your lab use to monitor DIC?” The answers were somewhat predictable, only with a twist. They were: a. FDP: 1% [1] b. D-dimer: 69% [48] c. FDP & D-dimer: 30% [21] d. Other, please comment: 0 These findings are interesting because most […]

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Fibrinolysis

May 17 2020

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More on Covid and LAC

Thanks to Dr. Ali Sadeghi-Khomami, Precision BioLogic Inc., for sending a current editorial in press, Aubignat M, Godefroy O. COVID-19 and ischemic stroke: Should we systematically look for lupus anticoagulant and antiphospholipid antibodies? Revue neurologique 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurol.2020.05.001. Please refer to our May 6 entry on antiphospholipid syndrome and the comment from Dr. Ning Tang. The […]

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Anticoagulant Therapy

May 16 2020

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Covid and Convalescent Plasma

Margaret and George Fritsma attended the American Society for Clinical Pathology May 11, 2020 Virtual Town Hall presentation, “Covid-19 and the Blood Bank,” now recorded and available to all. The presentation featured panel participants Kimberly W. Sanford, MD, MASCP, Virginia Commonwealth University, ASCP President-Elect; Melody Boudreaus Nelson, MS, MLS [ASCP], Laboratory Operations Manager; Advent Health, […]

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May 2020 Quick Question: D-dimer

Colleague Dave McGlasson commented that some of the Covid articles from China reported D-dimer and fibrin degradation products (FDPs) on their critically ill patients, prompting our May, 2020 Quick Question, What assay do you use to monitor disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)? If you answer “neither,” please indicate in the comments section if you use one […]

Fibrinolysis

DRVVT Controls

A brief question from friend and colleague Kirk Guyer, BioMedica Diagnostics, Inc: When a coag lab runs controls for DRVVRT, do they analyze the controls only based on clotting time or do they also use the ratio as a pass/fail criteria? We’ve had two answers so far. Frequent contributor Dave McGlasson checks the ratio for […]

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Covid Specimen Storage

From friend and colleague, Heather DeVries, Indiana University Health: Hi, George. As I am sure you are aware, we are seeing some very high dimers now surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. An email was sent from one of our sites to the entire system that they may want to save those samples for future validation studies […]

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Lupus Anticoagulant Testing

Maureen (Mo) Tacke, St. Luke’s Health System, sent this case. A woman who had experienced one normal fetus loss at longer than 10 weeks’ gestation and one unexplained spontaneous miscarriage at shorter than 10 weeks’ gestation but no additional thrombotic episodes had the following results: Initial: DRVVT ratio: 1.70 (limit 1.20); silica clot time ratio […]

Lupus Anticoagulant

Hex-phase Phospholipid Approval

This news just arrived on Tuesday February 25, 2020. Precision BioLogic’s new CRYOcheck Hex LA™ kit has been approved for use in Canada, the EU, Australia and New Zealand. Congratualtions to PBI, and again, please be sure to attend the poster presentation at the Chicago THSNA meeting.

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Hex-phase Phospholipid Reagent

The Thrombosis and Hemostasis Summit of North America (THSNA) convenes in Chicago Thursday, April 23 to Saturday April 25. Fritsma Factor’s sponsor, Precision BioLogic Inc, Halifax, NS, and Affinity Biologicals, Inc,Toronto, ON will occupy booth 401. From 9:45 to 10:30 on Thursday, presenters will be located near their posters including the following poster developed by […]

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More on D-dimer Reporting

Continuing in our D-dimer discussion, click or tap to read “Raising D-dimer Threshold Cuts Need for Chest Imaging by 30% in Suspected Pulmonary Embolism.” This article appears in the January/February issue of Clinical Laboratory News and refers to Kearon C, de Wit K, Parpia S, et al. Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism with d-Dimer Adjusted to […]

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Thrombophilia

May 2020 Quick Question: D-dimer Results

More on Covid and LAC

Covid and Convalescent Plasma

May 2020 Quick Question: D-dimer

DRVVT Controls

Covid Specimen Storage

Lupus Anticoagulant Testing

Hex-phase Phospholipid Approval

Hex-phase Phospholipid Reagent

More on D-dimer Reporting

George Fritsma MS MLS

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