Intracoronary blood sampling using the multifunction probing catheter does not cause platelet activation.
We sought to test the hypothesis that intracoronary blood sampling in patients with angiographically demonstrated coronary artery disease could be performed using the multifunction probing catheter (Schneider, Bulach, Switzerland), without causing ex vivo platelet activation.
Lowe
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HC
Centre for Thrombosis and Vascular Research, Level 4, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW, 2052, Australia. h.lowe@student.unsw.edu.au.
Murray
B
B
Chong
B H
BH
Chesterman
C N
CN
Khachigian
L M
LM
D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002404:Catheterization; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000097:blood*; D003331:Coronary Vessels; D005263:Femoral Artery; D006801:Humans; D019007:P-Selectin / Q000097:blood; D015539:Platelet Activation
D019007:P-Selectin