HEMA 2 - PLATELETS (function tests) Flashcards
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: In vivo screening test
Advantages: Physiological
Disadvantages: Insensitive, invasive and high inter-operator CV
Bleeding Time
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: Responsive to panel of agonsists
Advantages: Diagnostic
Disadvantages: Labour intensive non-physiological
Aggregometry - turbidometric methods
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: Responsive to panel of agonists
Advantages: Whole blood test
Disadvantages: Insensitive
Aggregometry - impedance methods
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: Combined aggregation and ADP release
Advantages: More information
Disadvantages: Semi-quantitative
Aggregometry and luminescence
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: Stored and released ADP
Advantages: Sensitive
Disadvantages: Specialised equipment
Adenine nucleotides
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: Ultrastructural evaluation of platelets e.g dense granular defects or giant platelet disorders
Advantages: Diagnostic
Disadvantages: Specialised equipment
Electron Microscope
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: Glycoprotein defects
Advantages: Simple
Disadvantages: Limited to major glycoproteins
Electrophoretic analysis
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: Measures platelet interaction with fibrinogen/fibrin. Detects abnormalities in number, Gp IIb/IIIa, signalling and Fg.
Advantages: Simple
Disadvantages: Not specific
Clot retraction
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: Global haemostasis
Advantages: Predicts bleeding
Disadvantages: Measures clot properties only, insensitive to aspirin
Thromboelastography (TEG)
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: High shear platelet function
Advantages: Simple
Disadvantages: Requires blood counter
Glass filterometer
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: In vivo platelet activation markers
Advantages: SImple, systemic measure of platelet activation
Disadvantages: Prone to artefact
Platelet release markers (e.g BTG PF4)
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: Global haemostasis. High shear platelet function.
Advantages: Measures global haemostatic function
Disadvantages: Cost of cartridges
Clot signature analyser (CSA)
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: High shear platelet adhesion/aggregation
Advantages: Small volume of blood, physiological
Disadvantages: Little widespread experience
Cone and plate(let) analyser (CPA) or IMPACT device
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: Platelet glycoproteins, activation markers, platelet function
Advantages: Whole blood test, flexible, wide variety of tests
Disadvantages: Specialised operator expensive equipment
Flow Cytometry
WHAT PLATELET FUNCTION TEST IS..
Aspects of platelet function test: Platelet counting pre and post activation
Advantages: Simple point of care instruments
Disadvantages: indirect test measuring count after aggregation
Ichor - plateletworks