Evaluation of automated immunoassays in the diagnosis of heparin induced thrombocytopenia

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Althaus, Karina ^a   Hron, Gregor ^a   Strobel, Ulrike ^a   Abbate, Rosanna ^b   Rogolino, Angela ^b   Davidson, Simon ^c   Greinacher, Andreas ^a   Bakchoul, Tamam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heparin; immunoassay; thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; THROMBOCYTE FACTOR 4;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

AGGLUTINATION; AUTOMATION; HEPARIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LATEX; LUMINESCENCE; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84875274326     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: 18792472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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