February 17, 2010 (Paris, France) — A new-point-of care test that can be used in the cath lab to monitor anticoagulation levels of enoxaparin (Lovenox, Sanofi-Aventis) has been shown to give reliable ...

Blood clots form naturally as a way to stop bleeding when someone is injured. But blood clots in patients with medical issues, such as mechanical heart valves or other heart conditions, can lead to a ...

There are several lab tests for hemophilia. However, the main tests detect the clotting activity of factors VIII and IX, which are proteins in the blood. Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder in which an ...

Rockville, MD - The FDA has issued a recall notice for CoaguChek TM PT (Roche Diagnostics) test strips, a product used by health professionals and patients to monitor blood-clotting time in patients ...

Acquired von Willebrand disease (AvWD) is a type of von Willebrand disease (vWD) that isn’t inherited. Instead, it can be due to other medical conditions or certain medications. vWD is a condition of ...

Postpartum hemorrhage, severe bleeding after childbirth, is a leading cause of maternal mortality around the world. But many of these deaths can be prevented—and a real-time blood-monitoring ...

In a potential paradigm change for sepsis diagnostics, a new test predicted sepsis soon after infection in mice - well before blood clotting and organ failure - enabling early antibiotic treatment and ...