RESEARCHERS UNCOVER CAUSE OF PERSISTENT BLOOD CLOTS DESPITE TREATMENT

A team of researchers have made a new discovery in the field of hematology, providing an explanation for spontaneous and unusual blood-clotting that continues to occur despite treatment with full-dose blood thinners.

Collaborators Dr Jing Jing Wang (co-first author), Professor Tom Gordon, and colleagues from Flinders University played a key role in cracking the code of lethal blood antibodies mediating the new chronic blood clotting disorder.

The new study led by Professor Ted Warkentin from McMaster University in Canada was published in the leading international medical journal, The New England Journal of Medicine.

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2025-02-14T06:25:07Z