Laboratory Limitations of Excluding Hereditary Protein C Deficiency by Chromogenic Assay: Discrepancies of Phenotype and Genotype

Protein C (PC) deficiency is associated with an increased risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE). In daily practice, exclusion of a hereditary PC deficiency is often based on a single determination of PC activity, by either clotting time–based or mostly chromogenic assay. However, diagnosis of heredi...

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Main Authors: Holger Seidel MD, Bianca Haracska BSc, Jennifer Naumann PhD, Philipp Westhofen PhD, Moritz Sebastian Hass MSc, Johannes Philipp Kruppenbacher MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-04-01
Series:Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1076029620912028