Teaching an old dog new tricks?

Gatt, Alexander

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Title:	Teaching an old dog new tricks?
Authors:	Gatt, Alexander Vella, Kevin
Keywords:	Hemophilia Hemophilia Fibrinolysis Fibrinolysis Clinical medicine -- History Clinical medicine -- History Anticoagulants (Medicine) Anticoagulants (Medicine)
Issue Date:	2019
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Citation:	Gatt, A., & Vella, K. (2019). Teaching an old dog new tricks? British Journal of Haematology, 187, 416–417.
Abstract:	This editorial comment discussing a diagnostic test ' Partial thromboplastin time' which found its place in all coagulation laboratories around the world! Its automation made it even more convenient and faster to use, and its popularity has also contributed to it becoming cheaper and more accessible. Nowadays, most APTTs are requested for unfractionated heparin monitoring, a drug which is also on its way out, and lupus anticoagulant detection, and it is still the backbone of FVIII, FIX, FXI and FXII monitoring as a one-stage assay. This editorial comment discussing a diagnostic test ' Partial thromboplastin time' which found its place in all coagulation laboratories around the world! Its automation made it even more convenient and faster to use, and its popularity has also contributed to it becoming cheaper and more accessible. Nowadays, most APTTs are requested for unfractionated heparin monitoring, a drug which is also on its way out, and lupus anticoagulant detection, and it is still the backbone of FVIII, FIX, FXI and FXII monitoring as a one-stage assay.
URI:	https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/103505
ISSN:	13652141
Appears in Collections:	Scholarly Works - FacM&SPat

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