Oct 6 2011
Clottable Protein C & S Assays
From Pam Owens at Tricore: We have a specimen from a pregnant patient with a low clottable protein C. Her INR is normal, but she is a heterozygote for both factor V Leiden mutation and the prothrombin 20120 gene mutation. Could the prothrombin gene mutation be interfering with the assay, causing the PC levels to appear lower than they actually […]
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