An apparatus for measuring the tensile strength of blood clots |
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| Authors: | R. G. Macfarlane and A. H. Tomlinson |
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| Affiliation: | .Department of Pathology, the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford;.Public Health Laboratory, Oxford |
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| Abstract: | An apparatus is described which uses the principle of the ballistic pendulum to measure the tensile strength of blood clots formed in special cuvettes. The method appears to have a reproducibility which would allow a study to be made of the factors influencing clot strength. A brief survey of the findings with normal blood and with blood from cases of thrombosis and haemophilia shows significant differences between the mean values for each group. |
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