Recommendations for the standardization of light transmission aggregometry: a consensus of the working party from the platelet physiology subcommittee of SSC/ISTH

*Unita di Medicina III Ospedale San Paolo, Dipartimento di Scienze della Salute, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan; †Laboratori diRicerca, Universita Cattolica, Campobasso, Italy; ‡School of Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham,UK; §Department of Medicine, McMaster University and Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton, Canada; ¶Departmentof Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; **CHOC Children’s Hospital, HematologyResearch, Orange, CA, USA; ††Centre de Reference des Pathologies Plaquettaires, Plateforme Technologique et d’Innovation Biomedicale,H^opital Xavier Arnozan, Pessac, France; ‡‡Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA;§§Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA; ¶¶Centrefor Cardiovascular Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Research, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, College of Medical and DentalSciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK; and ***Center for Platelet Research Studies, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USATo cite this article: Cattaneo M, Cerletti C, Harrison P, Hayward CPM, Kenny D, Nugent D, Nurden P, Rao AK, Schmaier AH, Watson SP, Lus-sana F, Pugliano MT, Michelson AD. Recommendations for the standardization of light transmission aggregometry: a consensus of the workingparty from the platelet physiology subcommittee of SSC/ISTH. J Thromb Haemost 2013; 11: 1183–9.