Haemostasis news

The second Axis-Shield UK Haemostasis symposium was held at our offices in Cambridgeshire. Some excellent speakers – includingDr Roger Luddington, Dr Steve Kitchen and Dr Gary Moore – covered aPCR testing,vWF disease and the rights and wrongs of Lupus testing protocols. Under thelatter, a number of key points were raised:

• Many laboratories are testing inappropriate samples at the expense of the better analysis of clinically important specimens
• Anti β-2 GP 1 is possibly the most clinically significant marker
• Using ratios alone as a screen and not performing confirmations on apparent normals can results in genuine Lupus disease being missed

Copies of the speaker’s presentations areavailable from Sue Younghusband, sue.younghusband@axis-shielduk.com

In addition, American Diagnostica’sActichrome Heparin (Anti Xa) assay is now available for diagnostic usefollowing clinical validation and the award of the European CE mark. Forfurther information, contact Sue Younghusband at: sue.younghusband@axis-shielduk.com