Diagnostic Assessment of Platelet Disorders: What Are the Challenges to Standardization?

The platelet disorders are a group of heterogeneous, congenital and acquired bleeding disorders associated with impaired platelet function. There is a growing interest in standardizing the assessment of these disorders, but this is challenged by their heterogeneity, the absence of widely accepted diagnostic criteria, and inconsistency in laboratory testing practices for platelet disorders. Symptoms commonly associated with platelet disorders …