Abstract:Platelet function is closely associated with cardiovascular diseases. With the increased awareness of the diseases, there are more and more methods for platelet function est developed. Since the invention of light transmission aggregometry(LTA), it has been thought to be the golden standard of platelet function testing. In recent years,various test methods have been developed with the increasing awareness of disease and treatment as well as technological advances. However, despite the gold standard or the latest methods, they have more or less flaws and some aspects of advantage. In this article, we introduced and summarized currently available methods of measuring platelet unction.