The Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM, formerly AACC) has issued expert guidance on coagulation testing in patients taking blood thinners that have the potential to interfere ...

Coagulation disorders refer to conditions that affect how the body controls blood clotting. This can mean the body forms too many or too few blood clots. Coagulation disorders are usually due to a ...

The second component of Virhow's triad is blood coagulation factors (proteins present in plasma). These factors may be roughly divided into two groups: zymogen (proenzymes that can be converted into ...

A data-driven update to the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score issued new definitions, new variables, and revised thresholds to categorize the severity of organ dysfunction in critical ...

Explore the evolution, methods, and limitations of mixing studies in detecting factor deficiencies and lupus anticoagulants ...

DIC related to cancer is always secondary to a well-defined clinical condition. (See Table 1 for a list of common causes of DIC related to cancer.) This point is important to remember, as treatment of ...

Internal quality control is an integral process of laboratory testing. A clinical laboratory's coagulation quality control (QC) program is a critical component of its quality assessment program. The ...

A recent study provides new insights into the mechanisms of coagulation in persons with haemophilia A, the most common form of haemophilia. The research team was able to show that saliva contains ...

Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have a profound hypercoagulable state, and complicating venous thrombotic events are common. 1-3 Abnormalities in coagulation screening measures, ...

Olympus announced today that it made a voluntary corrective action to provide further clarification on the use of certain bronchoscopes.