Routine Coagulation Laboratory at King's College Hospital

Laboratory overview

Our laboratory, led by Dr. Roopen Arya, provides both clinical and laboratory support to this busy teaching hospital.

We provide a wide range of coagulation tests including routine coagulation studies, factor assays, testing for lupus anticoagulant and inhibitors, platelet function tests and thrombophilia work-up. Recent additions to the research laboratory include thromboelastography and thrombin generation assays.

King's has been a Haemophilia Centre for over two decades.

Routine coagulation laboratory is a UKAS accredited medical laboratory (No 9092), accredited to ISO15189:2012 for the tests listed in the schedule of accreditation on the UKAS website http://https://www.ukas.com/wp-content/uploads/schedule_uploads/00007/9092-Medical-Single.pdf

Key features

We offer:   

• Genetic counselling and prenatal diagnosis in conjunction with Professor Nicolaides at the Foetal Medicine Unit.
• A large Anticoagulant Clinic with over 1,300 'active' patients.
• A nurse-led outpatient DVT service and early-discharge PE service.  
• Expertise in thromboprophylaxis for both medical and surgical patients  
• The diagnosis and management of thrombophilia in close collaboration with several units especially obstetrics, neurology and hepatology.
• Facilities for full phenotypic and genetic thrombophilia screening including DNA analysis for Factor V Leiden, prothrombin and MTHFR polymorphisms.

Blood Sciences test list 

See attachment below for our most up to date test repertoire