Bookedited by Paul Monagle.
Contents:
Coagulation system in humans / Anthony K.C. Chan and Nethnapha Paredes
Platelet physiology / Matthew D. Linden
Role of the vessel wall / Nethnapha Paredes and Anthony K.C. Chan
Specimen requirements for the haemostasis laboratory / Linda J. Stang and Lesley G. Mitchell
Methods of coagulation / Gemma Crighton
Reference ranges of coagulation tests / Oliver Speer [and others]
Lupus anticoagulant testing / Karen Moffat, Anne Raby, and Mark Crowther
Activated partial thromboplastin time / Vera Ignjatovic
Prothrombin time/international normalized ratio / Vera Ignjatovic
Thrombin clotting time / Vera Ignjatovic
Thrombin generation / Leslie R. Berry and Anthony K.C. Chan
Activated clotting time (ACT) / Stephen Horton and Simon Augustin
Factor XIII assays / Stephen Opat [and others]
Fibrinogen / Linda J. Stang and Lesley G. Mitchell
Platelet counting / Sylvain Salignac [and others]
Platelet morphology analysis / Véronique Latger-Cannard [and others]
Light transmission aggregometry / Juan Pablo Frontroth
Platelet flow cytometry / Matthew D. Linden
Anti-factor Xa (Anti-Xa) assay / Fiona Newall
Reptilase time (RT) / Hratsch Karapetian
Protamine titration / Fiona Newall
Laboratory methods for the assay of tissue factor pathway inhibitor in human plasma / Robyn Summerhayes
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia / Andreas Greinacher, Birgitt Fürll, and Sixten Selleng
Nijmegen-Bethesda assay to measure factor VIII inhibitors / Elizabeth Duncan, Margaret Collecutt, and Alison Street
Kaolin clotting time / Kottayam Radhakrishnan
Dilute Russell's viper venom time / Kottayam Radhakrishnan
Platelet neutralization test / Kottayam Radhakrishnan
Antithrombin / Mirta Hepner and Vasiliki Karlaftis
Protein C / Mirta Hepner and Vasiliki Karlaftis
Protein S / Mirta Hepner and Vasiliki Karlaftis
Testing for hyperhomocysteinemia in subjects with a history of thromboembolic events using HPLC technique / Jonas Denecke
Anticardiolipin antibody and anti-beta 2 glycoprotein I antibody assays / Anne Raby, Karen Moffat, and Mark Crowther
Testing for apolipoprotein(a) phenotype using isoelectric focusing and immunoblotting technique / Claus Langer, Bertram Tambyrayah, and Ulrike Nowak-Göttl
D-dimer and fibrinogen/fibrin degradation products / Linda J. Stang.