Is a medical journal ad for platelet-inhibition testing backed up by evidence that treatment guided by such testing can reduce the risk of clot formation? No, writes Yale cardiologist Harlan Krumholz.

Randomized trials of platelet function and genetic testing to guide antiplatelet decisions following PCI have produced notoriously mixed results: now, an updated consensus document aims to fill some ...

The global platelet function test market is projected to be valued at USD 1.38 billion in 2025 and is expected to reach USD 2.61 billion by 2035, registering a CAGR of 6.3% during the forecast period.

An experimental genetic test can gauge a person's risk of developing potentially deadly blood clots, researchers report. People who scored high on the test had more than double the rate of heart ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Physicians are far more likely to order a VerifyNow (Accumetrics) platelet-function test for their patients with acute MI if the point-of-care assay is offered to them for free, ...

LOS ANGELES, CA—In patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) treated with prasugrel, the incidence of high on-treatment platelet reactivity depends on the type of platelet function test used, ...

LOS ANGELES — Patients with intracranial aneurysm who respond poorly to the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel when treated with flow diversion using the Pipeline embolization device (Medtronic) have ...

Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD Key Takeaways An MPV blood test measures the average size of your platelets, which can suggest certain health conditions.High MPV, with larger cells, means your ...

While thrombocytopenia and bleeding are events that often occur together in neonates, this may not signify cause and effect. In fact, one study reported that 91% of neonates with low platelet counts ...

A clinical trial of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and stable angina showed that a strategy of rapid genotyping followed by selective ...

Study of the bleeding tendency in uremia in 26 subjects, 10 of whom were bleeding, showed platelet counts and plasma coagulation factors to be normal. There was a significant inverse correlation ...