Monitoring of the activated partial thromboplastin time is also not required and does not reflect the anticoagulant effect, as APTT is insensitive to alterations in factor Xa.
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The partial thromboplastin time ( PTT ) is used in conjunction with another measure of how quickly blood clotting takes place called the prothrombin time ( PT ).
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As muscle cells die, they absorb sodium, water and calcium; the rhabdomyolysis releases potassium, myoglobin, phosphate, thromboplastin, creatine and creatine kinase.
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Blood serum and blood plasma are similar, but serum does not contain any clotting factors, such as fibrinogen, prothrombin, thromboplastin, calcium and many others.
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It is usually ordered in situations where the partial thromboplastin time ( PTT ) test may take an excessive amount of time to process or is not clinically useful.
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In both haemophilia A and B, there is spontaneous bleeding but a normal bleeding time, normal prothrombin time, normal thrombin time, but prolonged partial thromboplastin time.
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Thromboplastin is the combination of both phospholipids and tissue factor, both needed in the activation of the extrinsic pathway, and partial thromboplastin is just phospholipids without tissue factor.
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Thromboplastin is the combination of both phospholipids and tissue factor, both needed in the activation of the extrinsic pathway, and partial thromboplastin is just phospholipids without tissue factor.
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The effects of heparin are measured in the lab by the partial thromboplastin time ( aPTT ), one of the measures of the time it takes the blood plasma to clot.
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This would have set it apart from warfarin and heparin, which require monitoring of the international normalized ratio ( INR ) and the partial thromboplastin time ( PTT ), respectively.
