Platelet function analyzer (PFA)‐100® closure time in the evaluation of platelet disorders and platelet function: reply to a rebuttal

*Chair, Working Group on the PFA-100 , ISTH-SSC Platelet Physiology Subcommittee; McMaster University and the Hamilton RegionalLaboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Oxford Haemophilia Centre & Thrombosis Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK; §Unita`di Ematologia e Trombosi, Ospedale San Paolo, DMCO, Universita` di Milano, Milan, Italy; –Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA;**Chairperson, ISTH-SSC Platelet Physiology Subcommittee2001–2004; and Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center, TempleUniversity Schoolof Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USATo cite this article: Hayward CPM, Harrison P, Cattaneo M, Ortel TL, Rao AK. Platelet function analyzer (PFA)-100 closure time in the evaluationof platelet disorders and platelet function: reply to a rebuttal. J Thromb Haemost 2006; 4: 1433–4.See also Kratzer MAA, Kretschmer V. Platelet function analyzer (PFA)-100 closure time in the evaluation of platelet disorders and plateletfunction – a rebuttal. This issue, pp. 1429–31.