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Ann Clin Biochem
; 55(1): 181-184, 2018 Jan.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28490182
RESUMO
We report a patient with acquired von Willebrand disease, associated with multiple myeloma. At one stage in his illness, we were unable to analyse a sample sent in a serum separator tube, due to the presence of a gel within the separated serum layer. We suggest this was due to anomalous position of the gel because of the density of the sample caused by its high total protein concentration, exacerbated by fibrin strand formation because of inhibition of appropriate fibrin clot formation secondary to clotting disorder.