Hemostasis, Clinical Pathology
The hemostasis laboratory and the division provide service to inpatients,
outpatients, and outreach clients, and serve as a reference laboratory
for other institutions in the Chicago area. Faculty and staff members
conduct research and teach medical students and residents on topics related
to bleeding and thrombosis.
Testing and Services
The laboratory provides full service from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Sunday
through Friday and from 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. Coagulation
service with reduced menu is provided by the Rapid Response Laboratory
during "off-hours."
Hemostasis Tests Offered
- Activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT)
- Activated protein C resistance
- Alpha2 plasmin inhibitor
- Anticardiolipin antibodies
- Antiphospholipid syndrome panel
- Antithrombin III activity
- Bleeding time
- Circulating anticoagulant screening
- Clot retraction
- D-dimer assay, semiquantitative (latex agglutination)
- Euglobulin clot lysis time
- Factor assays, quantitative (Factors II, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI,
and XII)
- Factor XIII assay, qualitative
- Fibrinogen determination
- Fibrinogen/fibrin degradation products (FDP), semiquantitative (latex
agglutination)
- Heparin-induced antiplaPhoneet antibody (plaPhoneet aggregation method)
- Lupus anticoagulant panel
- Plasminogen
- PlaPhoneet aggregation
- PlaPhoneet glassbead column retention
- Protein C activity
- Protein C antigen
- Protein S activity
- Protein S antigen
- Prothrombin time (PT)
- Ristocetin cofactor assay
- Thrombin time
- Thromboelastography
- von Willebrand factor assay
Clinical Research
Current Topics include
- Performance characteristics of a synthetic APTT reagent
- PT testing with low ISI recombinant reagents in liver disease
- Heparin monitoring with a heparin-sensitive APTT reagent
- Critical reappraisal for need of duplicate testing in PT/APTT assays
Teaching
Faculty and staff members teach medical and dental students, pathology
residents and hematopathology fellows, and medical technology students.
Blood Bank Laboratories
Faculty
| Northwestern Memorial Hospital Hemostasis Lab
|
Phone:
Fax:
Lab: |
(312) 926-2428
(312) 926-8393
251 East Huron Street
Feinberg 7th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611-2950 |
| |
Samples to:
251 East Huron Street
Feinberg 7th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611-2950
|
| |
Manager: (312) 926-2544
Resource Coordinator: (312) 926-2428
|
|
