Significantly Prolonged Prothrombin Time and Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time with no Bleeding Tendency: A Patient with Lupus Anticoagulant–Hypoprothrombinemia Syndrome Positive for Immunoglobulin M Anti-Phosphatidylserine/Prothrombin complex Antibodies

Yang Fei; Ning Tang; Hui Zhang; Guo Li; Hongbo Zhang; Chi Zhang

doi:10.1055/s-0039-3402477

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Inhaltsverzeichnis

Semin Thromb Hemost 2020; 46(04): 507-511
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-3402477

Letter to the Editor

Thieme Medical Publishers 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA.

Significantly Prolonged Prothrombin Time and Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time with no Bleeding Tendency: A Patient with Lupus Anticoagulant–Hypoprothrombinemia Syndrome Positive for Immunoglobulin M Anti-Phosphatidylserine/Prothrombin complex Antibodies

Yang Fei‡^*

¹Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

,

Ning Tang‡^*

¹Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

,

Hui Zhang

¹Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

,

Guo Li

¹Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

,

Hongbo Zhang

¹Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

,

Chi Zhang

¹Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China

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