Third, we did not study in parallel TG in a matched healthy population, thus precluding the determination as to whether or not there was an enhanced thrombin potential in HIT patients; and we used just one condition – it might be worthwhile to study TG in presence of thrombomodulin, a condition enabling the detection of some forms of hypercoagulability [37, 38]. Here, THBD is linked to thrombophilia.