Comprehensive review of the impact of direct oral anticoagulants on thrombophilia diagnostic tests : Practical recommendations for the laboratory

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There is a laboratory and clinical need to know the impact of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) on diagnostic tests to avoid misinterpretation of results. Although the regulatory labelling documents provide some information about the influences of each DOAC on diagnostic tests, these are usually limited to some of the most common tests and no head to head comparison is available. In this paper, we report the impact of DOACs on several thrombophilia tests, including assessment of antithrombin, protein S and protein C activity assays, detection of activated protein C resistance and assays used for lupus anticoagulant. Results are compared and discussed with data obtained from literature. The final goal of this comprehensive review is to provide practical recommendations for laboratories to avoid misdiagnosis due to oral direct factor Xa (FXa) or IIa (FIIa) inhibitors. Overall, oral direct FXa (apixaban, betrixaban, edoxaban and rivaroxaban) and FIIa (dabigatran) antagonists may affect clot-based thrombophilia diagnostic tests resulting in false-positive or false-negative results. An effect on FIIa-based thrombophilia diagnostic tests is observed with dabigatran but not with anti-FXa DOACs and conversely for FXa-based thrombophilia diagnostic tests. No impact was observed with antigenic/chromogenic methods for the assessment of protein S and C activity. In conclusion, interpretation of thrombophilia diagnostic tests results should be done with caution in patients on DOACs. The use of a device/chemical compound able to remove or antagonize the effect of DOACs or the development of new diagnostic tests insensitive to DOACs should be considered to minimize the risk of false results.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:43

Enthalten in:

International journal of laboratory hematology - 43(2021), 1 vom: 07. Feb., Seite 7-20

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Siriez, Romain [VerfasserIn]
Dogné, Jean-Michel [VerfasserIn]
Gosselin, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Laloy, Julie [VerfasserIn]
Mullier, François [VerfasserIn]
Douxfils, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anticoagulants
Antithrombins
Apixaban
Betrixaban
Dabigatran
Edoxaban
Journal Article
PROS1 protein, human
Protein C
Protein S
Review
Rivaroxaban
Thrombophilia

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Date Completed 06.05.2021

Date Revised 06.05.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/ijlh.13342

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315181419