Clinical Hemostasis

The Clinical Hemostasis Laboratory offers a comprehensive test menu that includes specialized workups for abnormal PT and APTT patient results, seven-days-a-week laboratory operation, and individual consultative services with nationally known and internationally recognized coagulation specialists.

Director:
Serhan Alkan, MD
spacer Manager:
Kathleen McKenna

For additional information, please call customer service at
1-888-LML-LABS

Consultative Service

  • Individualized consultation with our coagulation specialists

Panels

  • Prolonged APTT Workup
  • Prolonged PT Workup
  • Lupus Anticoagulant Panel
  • DIC Panel

Screening Tests

  • Prothrombin Time (PT)
  • Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (APTT)
  • Fibrin Split Products (FSP)
  • Template Bleeding Time***
  • Thrombin Time (TT)

Coagulation Factors

  • Fibrinogen (clot based)
  • Fibrinogen Antigen
  • Factor II
  • Factor VII Activity
  • Factor VIII Activity
  • Factor IX Activity
  • Factor X Activity
  • Factor XI Activity
  • Factor XII Activity
  • HMW Kininogen (Fitzgerald Factor)
  • Prekallikrein (Fletcher Factor)
  • Factor XIII Screen (urea solubility)

Inhibitors

  • PT and/or APTT Mixing Study
  • Incubated Mixing Study (PT and/or APTT)
  • Factor VIII Inhibitor (Bethesda)
  • Lupus Anticoagulant
  • Prolonged APTT or PT Workup

Platelet Function

  • Platelet Aggregation*** (ADP - high and low dose, collagen, epinephrine, arachidonic acid, ristocetin - high and low dose)
  • Template Bleeding Time***

Fibrinolysis/DIC

  • Alpha-2 Plasmin Inhibitor Level
  • Antithrombin III Activity
  • D-dimer (quantitative or semi-quantitative)
  • Euglobulin Clot Lysis Time***
  • Fibrinogen (clot based)
  • FSP
  • Plasminogen
  • Protein C Activity

von Willebrand Disease

  • Factor VIII Activity
  • von Willebrand Factor (vWF) Activity (ristocetin cofactor)
  • von Willebrand Factor (vWF) Antigen (Factor VIII-related antigen)
  • von Willebrand Factor (vWF) Multimers

Thrombosis/Hypercoagulability

  • Anticardiolipin Antibodies (IgG, IgM, IgA)
  • Antithrombin III Activity or Antigen
  • Dilute Russell Viper Venom Time (DRVVT)
  • Euglobulin Clot Lysis Time***
  • Factor V Leiden (gene mutation)
  • Heparin-Induced Platelet Aggregation (HIPA)
  • Heparin-Induced Antibody Titer
  • Plasminogen Activity
  • Platelet Neutralization Procedure (PNP)
  • Protein C Activity or Antigen
  • Protein S Activity or Antigen (free and/or total)
  • Prothrombin Gene Mutation
  • Serotonin Release Assay (SRA)

Miscellaneous - Including ITP

  • Ecarin Clotting Time (Thrombin Inhibitor Assay)
  • Heparin Assay (anti-Xa assay) - specify LMW or unfractionated heparin
  • Reptilase Time
  • Platelet-Specific Antibody Screen (PLA1)
  • Platelet-Associated IgG/IgM (ITP)
  • Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia (NAT)

*** Patient must come to the Medical Center for blood draw - appointment required.

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