Platelets function assessment in patients qualified for cardiac surgery - clinical problems and a newer diagnostic possibilities.
Kinga KosiorowskaMarceli LukaszewskiJacek JakubaszkoKatarzyna Kościelska-KasprzakGrzegorz BielickiWaldemar GozdzikMarek JasinskiPublished in: Journal of cardiothoracic surgery (2018)
Early identification of patients at high risk of bleeding, using point-of-care platelet function assessment tests, enables a targeted therapeutic pathway. Due to the variety of factors affecting the activity of platelets, finding a specific cause of this pathology is extremely difficult. According to our study, the correlation between platelet receptor disorders and mild to moderate liver and kidney injury has not been demonstrated. However, platelet receptors dysfunction has been shown to be associated with a decreased number of platelets.