Despite the continuing improvement of automated blood cell counters, confirmation by blood smear examination remains the gold standard in case of anomalies. With a constant goal of standardisation, different experts committees (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe impact of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) on laboratory assays used for thrombophilia testing (e.g., antithrombin, protein S, protein C, lupus anticoagulant and activated protein-C resistance) is a well-known issue and may cause false-positive and -negative results.
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