ANALYSIS OF APPROACH TO THE INTERPRETATION OF SCREENING TESTS OF THE COAGULATION SYSTEM

Abstract

To analyse the approach to a patient with
bleeding disorder.To document the utility
of screening tests such as bleeding time,
platelet count, PT, APTT in patients with
acquired and congenital bleeding disorder.
To improvise the system of factor assay
in individual cases. MATERIALS AND
METHODSThis study was carried out in
clinical pathology laboratory, department
of pathology, Coimbatore. A total of 100
cases from all age groups of both genders
with various bleeding disorders were selected
and investigations carried out by
standard procedures. In each case a detailed
history including age ,sex, occupation,
personal and family history were
taken.RESULTSAmong 100 cases studied
82 were due to acquired bleeding disorder,
In remaining 18 cases 8 were due to congenital
bleeding disorder and 10 cases of
unknown etiology with abnormal coagulation
profile which may be due to other factor
deficiency.