Global hemostasis: new approaches to patient diagnosis and treatment monitoring. Foreword.

摘要

VVelcome to another issue of Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis. In this issue, Maha Othman has put together an interesting collection of articles that reviews the topic of global hemostasis. The concept of global hemostasis is certainly not new. As the name implies, global hemostasis assays are intended to assess the risk of bleeding, thrombosis, fibrinolysis, and response to antithrombotics in various clinical conditions using a single assay, typically performed on whole blood.