DOI: 10.1055/s-00000077

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Issue 02 · Volume 35 · March 2009 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-18484 Diagnostic Evaluation of Platelet Function Disorders Catherine P.M Hayward M.D. Ph.D. F.R.C.P.(C.) Emmanuel J Favaloro Ph.D. M.A.I.M.S.

PREFACE

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Hayward, Catherine P.M; Favaloro, Emmanuel J: Diagnostic Evaluation of Platelet Disorders: The Past, the Present, and the Future

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Pai, Menaka; Hayward, Catherine P.M: Diagnostic Assessment of Platelet Disorders: What Are the Challenges to Standardization?
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Favaloro, Emmanuel J: Internal Quality Control and External Quality Assurance of Platelet Function Tests
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Harrison, Paul; Mumford, Andrew: Screening Tests of Platelet Function: Update on Their Appropriate Uses for Diagnostic Testing
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Cattaneo, Marco: Light Transmission Aggregometry and ATP Release for the Diagnostic Assessment of Platelet Function
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McGlasson, David L; Fritsma, George A: Whole Blood Platelet Aggregometry and Platelet Function Testing
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Israels, Sara J: Diagnostic Evaluation of Platelet Function Disorders in Neonates and Children: An Update
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Althaus, Karina; Greinacher, Andreas: MYH9-Related Platelet Disorders
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Nurden, Alan T; Fiore, Mathieu; Pillois, Xavier; Nurden, Paquita: Genetic Testing in the Diagnostic Evaluation of Inherited Platelet Disorders
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Clauser, Sylvain; Cramer-Bordé, Elisabeth: Role of Platelet Electron Microscopy in the Diagnosis of Platelet Disorders
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Miller, Jonathan L: Glycoprotein Analysis for the Diagnostic Evaluation of Platelet Disorders
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Weiss, Harvey J: Impaired Platelet Procoagulant Mechanisms in Patients with Bleeding Disorders
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Mezzano, Diego; Quiroga, Teresa; Pereira, Jaime: The Level of Laboratory Testing Required for Diagnosis or Exclusion of a Platelet Function Disorder Using Platelet Aggregation and Secretion Assays