Effect of magnesium contamination in evacuated blood collection tubes on the prothrombin time test and ISI calibration using recombinant human thromboplastin and different types of coagulometer

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 239-244

  Van Den Besselaar, A M H P ^a   Rutten, W P F ^b   Witteveen, E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Stichting Huisartsen Laboratorium   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood collection tube; INR; Magnesium; Prothrombin time; Thromboplastin

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SODIUM; MAGNESIUM; RECOMBINANT THROMBOPLASTIN;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALIBRATION; COAGULOMETER; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTAINER; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; HEMOCONCENTRATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUBE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CALIBRATION; CITRATES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MAGNESIUM; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM; THROMBOPLASTIN;

EID: 11144284730     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2004.08.019     Document Type: Article

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