Full Description
Knowledge of the laboratory tests which most effectively work-up a patient presenting with bleeding or clotting manifestations is crucial to develop a sound and timely action plan for the benefit of the patient. It is important for medical professionals to know which tests best evaluate the causes of hemostasis disorders and what common clinical scenarios can significantly interfere with accurate test results, such as the impact of anticoagulant agents on routine and special coagulation assay results.
Interpretation of Results of Routine and Special Coagulation Tests: A Practical Guide is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible reference text for any medical professional who must order, understand, or interpret tests of the hemostasis system. For each test, this book provides the causes of abnormal results, including what can lead to false-positive and false-negative results. When possible, information is provided in table form for quick reference, such as the impact of commonly used anticoagulants on the results of hemostasis tests. This practical guide also includes tests that evaluate global hemostasis and clot lysis by viscoelastometry, as well as a discussion of laboratory monitoring of anticoagulants, antiplatelet agents, antifibrinolytics, and thrombolytics.
Contents
Part I: General Consideration
Chapter 1. Basics of laboratory evaluation of bleeding and clotting disorders
Chapter 2. Laboratory evaluation of bleeding disorders
Part II: Tests for Individual Phases of Hemostasis
Chapter 3. Tests for bleeding disorders due to defects in primary hemostasis
Chapter 4. Tests for bleeding disorders due to defects in secondary hemostasis
Chapter 5. Tests for bleeding and thrombotic/clotting disorders due to defects in tertiary hemostasis (fibrinolytic system)
Part III: Laboratory evaluation of specific clotting/thrombotic disorders
Chapter 6. Tests for disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and for excluding
vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) in an outpatient setting
Chapter 7. Tests for antiphospholipid syndrome
Chapter 8. Tests for hereditary thrombophilia
Chapter 9. Tests for heparin induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis and adenovirus & vaccine induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis:
Chapter 10. Tests for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
Part IV: Viscoelastic global hemostasis assays
Chapter 11. Global tests to assess overall hemostasis and fibrinolysis
Part V: Laboratory monitoring of therapeutic agents
Chapter 12. Anticoagulants
Chapter 13. Antiplatelet agents
Chapter 14. Other agents
Part VI: Impact of anticoagulants on results of coagulation tests
Chapter 15. Influence of anticoagulants on results of routine and special coagulation assays
