INDIANAPOLIS, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Medicare Part B will now cover and pay for meter training, equipment and supplies for all long-term warfarin users who monitor their prothrombin time at home ...

The CoaguChek XS system (Roche Diagnostics) comprises a meter and specifically designed test strips that can analyse a blood sample (fresh capillary blood or fresh untreated whole venous blood) and ...

The University of Washington announced that a team of researchers has developed a prothrombin time/international normalized ratio (PT/INR) blood clotting test that requires only a single drop of blood ...

Because of a patient's ongoing physiological changes, what was initially an ideal dosage of a medication such as warfarin may become not-so-ideal as time passes. The drug could end up keeping the ...

Thirteen patients with liver disease and an abnormal prothrombin time refractory to vitamin K therapy were studied (Tables 1 and 2). None of the patients were actively bleeding, and none had received ...

Stress Causes Lower INR in VTE Patients Not on Blood Thinners The effect of psychological distress on clotting times and clotting factors varies in patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) and ...

Point-of-care coagulometers (the CoaguChek XS system and the INRatio2 PT/INR monitor) for self-monitoring coagulation status in people on long-term vitamin K antagonist therapy who have atrial ...