Reference intervals of the dilute tissue thromboplastin inhibition and dilute Russell's viper venom tests revisited

Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 115-124

  Gerbutavicius, Rolandas ^a,b   Fareed, Jawed ^a   Messmore Jr , Harry L ^a   Iqbal, Omer ^a,c   Hoppensteadt, Debra A ^a   Wehrmacher, William H ^a   Demir, Muzaffer ^a   Piccolo, Peter ^a   Ahmad, Sarfraz ^a   Ma, Qing ^a   Griniute, Rasa ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiphospholipid antibody; Dilute Russell's viper venom test; Dilute tissue thromboplastin inhibition test; Lupus anticoagulant; Reference interval

Indexed keywords

LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; THROMBOPLASTIN; VIPER VENOM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DILUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; DRUG ANTAGONISM; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS COAGULATION INHIBITOR; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; THROMBOPLASTIN;

EID: 0035992623     PISSN: 10760296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107602960200800206     Document Type: Article

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