Activated Clotting time (ACT): its diagnostic value in Monitoring low dose Heparin therapy

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Samina Zahid
Tahira Tasnim
Muhammad Tayyab

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To study diagnostic value of activated clotting time (ACT) in monitoring of low dose heparin therapy. One hundred cases were included in this study. Among them s50 healthy7 noraml subjects (group 1) were taken as control, while 50 were taken among patients of myocardial infarction (group 2) receiving continuous heparin therapy. for both grous of patients the laboratory test ACT and APTT were performed. ACT cannot be substituted for APTT though it can be used as a bedside test to monitor heparin therapy. it is a useful indicator where over heparinziation or under heparinization is suspeected and APTT results are awaited. 

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Zahid S, Tasnim T, Tayyab M. Activated Clotting time (ACT): its diagnostic value in Monitoring low dose Heparin therapy. J Postgrad Med Inst [Internet]. 2011 Oct. 7 [cited 2024 Nov. 7];19(1). Available from: https://jpmi.org.pk/index.php/jpmi/article/view/971
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