The first study to examine the effects of whole-chocolate consumption on ex vivo platelet function has shown that dark chocolate acutely reduces collagen-stimulated platelet aggregation and reduces ...

Proteolytic degradation products of fibrinogen, produced as a result of excessive fibrinolysis, have been demonstrated in the blood of cirrhotic patients. 7,8 Such degradation products, when formed in ...

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 ...

CHICAGO – Among patients with acute coronary syndromes undergoing a procedure such as angioplasty, those who received platelet function tests before receiving antithrombotic therapy to determine ...

The coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic that emerged in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019 spread rapidly throughout the world and has caused over 6.5 million deaths. The disease is caused by ...

A new study created a score to identify patients with platelet hyperreactivity and risk of related, future cardiovascular disease. Platelets are circulating cell fragments known to clump up and form ...

What Is the Platelet Aggregation Test? A platelet aggregation test is a blood test that looks at how well your blood cells called platelets clump together and clot. It is sometimes called a platelet ...