Long COVID patients show significantly higher levels of 'microclots,' abnormal clumps of blood-clotting proteins, as well as increased formation of structures called neutrophil extracellular traps, ac ...

Why so many COVID-19 patients get blood clots (thrombosis) remains uncertain. But scientists have now identified a mechanism they believe to be implicated. A particular protein triggers a part of our ...

Why so many COVID-19 patients get blood clots (thrombosis) remains uncertain. But scientists at Uppsala University and the University Hospital have now identified a mechanism they believe to be ...

Idarucizumab, which was granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the FDA, was shown to restore the blood clotting mechanism in healthy volunteers1,2 This is the first time that such an effect was ...

In my last article, I described a situation when we had to struggle to get a blood thinning medicine to a patient with a blood clot. Today, I will try to explain how blood clots form in the body and ...

Scientists have identified the specific structural element of von Willebrand Factor that allows it to bind with platelets and initiate blood clotting. The team says that the specific unit, which they ...

A $1.5 million, five-year federal grant will allow a University of Cincinnati(UC) research team to study the microparticles that cause ongoing changes in the blood clotting mechanism following ...

New research suggests that abnormalities in the process of blood clot formation may contribute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The study, published by Cell Press in the June 10 issue ...

Pregnancy already makes a woman more prone to a hypercoagulable state, implying that the blood clots more easily as a ...

Detailed coagulation analyses in 36 pediatric cases of septicemia revealed 22 gram-negative and eight gram-positive infections, two Rocky Mountain spotted fevers, and four with no etiologic agent ...