October 9, 2007 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to a peripheral atherectomy device for the treatment of peripheral artery disease, a prothrombin time test for ...

East Windsor, NJ - The FDA has given i-STAT Corporation clearance to market its prothrombin time (PT) test for use with the company's portable clinical analyzer according to a company press release.

The one-stage method was carried out on several hundred subjects to find the limits of variation in nonhypoprothrombinemic states. As representative samples, the results on 12 normal subjects studied ...

THE increasing enthusiasm for treating thromboembolic diseases with prothrombin-reducing drugs for long periods in ambulatory patients has emphasized the lack of clear definition of the therapeutic ...