Question 190 · LEK · Cross-cutting topics
A simultaneous increase in prothrombin time (PT) and in activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) is characteristic of:
- A. factor VIII deficiency.
- B. factor XIII deficiency.
- C. defect of the so-called final common pathway - (factors X, V, II, fibrinogen).
- D. hemophilia A.
- E. factor VII deficiency.
Hint
PT tests the extrinsic pathway and APTT the intrinsic one — which factors do both tests share?
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