“…It allows, in its activated form, to bind mainly fibrinogen but also vWF and fibronectin (Bennett, 2015;Porwit & Bene, 2018). GPIIb-IIIa deficiency, known as Glanzmann thrombasthenia, is a rare hemostasis disease leading to severe bleeding disorders with induced or spontaneous bleeding (Grainger, Thachil, & Will, 2018;Solh, Botsford, & Solh, 2015 two molecules is essential for the complex to be expressed on the platelet surface. With regard to quantitative deficiencies, use in FCM of a single monoclonal antibody directed either against GPIIb or GPIIIa and demonstrating a deficiency is therefore sufficient to sustain the absence of the complex on the platelet surface (Mitchell, Li, French, & Coller, 2006;O'Toole et al, 1989) (Figure 3a).…”