A 34-year-old woman (gravida 3, para 2) at 16 weeks’ gestation was found to have platelets unable to be quantified because of clumping on routine prenatal blood work, with a visual estimate of 40 ...

A once-daily pill of low-dose aspirin helps lower the potential for clot-forming blood cells -- in both men and women -- to stick together in narrow blood vessels, a study from Johns Hopkins shows. A ...

Incidents of heart attack and stroke, some fatal, in a small number of men taking the drug Viagra have remained a puzzle. After all, Viagra, commonly prescribed for erectile dysfunction, was ...

The most common etiology of pseudothrombocytopenia is platelet clumping induced by EDTA, which is the anticoagulant present in the purple tube in which blood is collected for a CBC. This clumping is ...

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In what is believed to be the largest review of the human genetic code to determine why some people's blood platelets are more likely to clump faster than others, scientists at Johns Hopkins and in ...

Existing clot busters have one major drawback: They prevent heart attack by indiscriminately blocking platelet function, thereby increasing the risk of uncontrolled bleeding. Now, a research team led ...

As cancer cells migrate in the body from a primary tumor, they’re chaperoned by clumps of platelets. These bloodstream particles shield the cells from damage and help them invade new tissues in the ...

AGGREGATION of platelets in the presence of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) appears to be important in hæmostasis and in the genesis of platelet thrombosis. There is evidence that this reaction is common ...

PURPURA is a heterogeneous group of diseases with a single common denominator of spontaneous extravasation of blood. Classically, the purpuras are divided into two major classes: symptomatic and ...