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Standard clotting assays. Both the prothrombin time (utilizing the extrinsic pathway) and activated partial thromboplastin time (utilizing the intrinsic pathway) assays are ideal for detecting gross coagulation defects. However, since the endpoint of these assays is the fibrin clot, these assays exclude over 95% of the thrombin generated in the complete reaction.
