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Query: EC:3.4.21.6 (thromboplastin)
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The potential differences in hematologic profiles of blood samples drawn simultaneously from the right utero-ovarian vein and from the upper extremity were investigated in four patients with uncomplicated molar pregnancy in stable obstetric conditions. The patients had undergone no previous chemotherapy and were scheduled for total abdominal hysterectomies. The dominant abnormalities in uterine venous blood were prolongation of thrombin time; shortening of activated partial thromboplastin time; positive protamine sulfate test; and increase in coagulation factors II and VII, with a tendency to low values in factor V. Peripheral samples gave almost parallel results in all altered and normal tests, except in one case with very striking differences in factors II, V, VII and X. Several local and systemic influences are discussed. It is concluded that molar pregnancy seems to have important systemic mechanisms affecting the stability of the blood coagulation homeostasis, which act in addition to those at a local level.
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PMID:Uterine and peripheral hematologic profiles in molar pregnancy. 3 41

A two stage method to determine prothrombin with the chromogenic peptide substrate benzoyl-phe-val-arg-p-nitroanilide has been worked out. Citrated plasma (10 mul) was diluted in 600 mul tris buffer, pH 8.2, ionic strength 0.18 and activated with 250 mul of a commercial rabbit brain-lung thromboplastin. After 325 s incubation at 37 degrees C 200 mul of a 1 mM solution of the chromogenic substrate was added and the increase in absorbance was recorded in a LKB-Beckman 8600 enzyme analyzer. A reading time of 1 minute (including a delay of 20 s) was used which permitted 55 analyses per hour to be carried out. An approximate linear relationship was found between delta A/min and dilutions of normal plasma in prothrombin deficient plasma. The method is insensitive to variations of factors V, VII and X. Less than 10% or normal plasma was needed to "normalize" plasmas deficient in factor V or VII or X. A group of 99 dicoumarol treated patients and 23 normal subjects has been investigated using the present method and compared with a factor II-VII-X determination method. A correlation coefficient of 0.95 was found.
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PMID:Prothrombin determination by means of a chromogenic peptide substrate. 6 99

Detailed coagulation studies were performed in a group of 19 patients with primary hepatocellular cancer (PHC) and the results were compared statistically with the findings in 19 control subjects. Various funcitonal and immunochemical methods were employed in determining the possible presence of functional or structural coagulant protein abnormalities. The patient group was characterized by prolonged prothrombin times, partial thromboplastin times, and Reptilase times, increased levels of fibrinogen, factor VIII, and factor VIII-related antigen, moderately devreased levels of factor V, factor IX, factor X, antithrombin III, and plasminogen, and reduced levels of factor II and factor VII. Functional, immunochemical, and biochemical analysis failed to detect the presence of acquired protein abnormalities. These findings indicate that hemostatic changes in primary hepatocellular cancer are nonspecific in character. Severe alterations in the plasma levels of one or more of these hemostatic factors may occur.
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PMID:Hemostatic factors in primary hepatocellular cancer. 19 99

In a retrospective study 40 children were selected out of 53 cases of septicaemia with thrombocytopenia. They were divided into two coincidentally equally large groups of patients with consumption coagulopathy on the one side and patients with isolated thrombocytopenia without consumption coagulopathy on the other side. Both groups were of comparable age and sex distribution. Two-thirds of the children were under three months. For the differential diagnosis of both groups the activated partial thromboplastin time, the thrombotest, the factor V plasma concentration, the serum concentration of fibrin (fibrinogen) degradation products as well as control coagulation studies can be considered to have the greatest diagnostic value. The results of the study permit the following conclusions: 1. Platelet deficiency in sepsis does not prove the presence of consumption coagulopathy. 2. Consumption coagulopathy and isolated thrombocytopenia differ statistically significantly according to the bacteria cultured from the blood, the circulatory state and the pH of the blood. 3. The finding of thrombocytopenia in a patient with shock, acidosis and gramnegative septicaemia justify the suspicion of consumption coagulopathy.
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PMID:[Consumption coagulopathy and isolated platelet deficiency in childhood septicaemia]. 23 38

Activated partial thromboplastin times (APTT's) performed with a semi-automated electrical-conductivity type of clot timer on plasmas from patients with hepatic disease and intravascular coagulation, and on warfarin or heparin therapy, were significantly lower than when done on the same plasmas with either a manual optical method or an automated optical-endpoint instrument. Results of APTT's done on normal plasmas by the three methods were not significantly different. Substitution of different activator-phospholipid reagents resulted in some variability in results, but these differences were less than those between the different done with both the electrical clot timer and the automated optical instrument on prepared plasmas containing 5.0 or 1.0% of factor II, V, VIII, IX, OR X revealed shorter times with the electrical clot timer only in the case of factor II- and factor V-deficient plasmas. APTT's done on normal plasmas to which 0.1 or 0.3 units per ml. of heparin had been added vitro also were shorter with the electrical clot itmer than the automatic optical instrument. Prothrombin times done on normal and abnormal control plasmas and on a series of plasmas from patients on warfarin therapy showed no significant difference between the two methods.
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PMID:Comparison of several activated partial thromboplastin time methods. 23 89

A prospective study of hemostatic abnormalities in 108 cancer patients was undertken at an oncology clinic in a university teaching hospital. Tests included Quick prothrombin time, activated partial thromboplastin time, thrombin time, platelet count, modified Ivy bleeding time, fibrinogen, fibrin degradation products (FDP), euglobulin lysis time, protamine sulfate test, and factor V, VII, VIII and X assays. Ninety-eight per cent of the patients had one or more abnormal coagulation tests. The commonest abnormalities were elevated fibrin degradation products and prolonged thrombin time. Thrombocytosis occurred in 57% of patients, hyperfibrinogenemia in 46%, thrombocytopenia in 11%, and non had hypofibrinogenmia. It is suggested that platelet count, fibrinogen concentration, and serum FDP assay are the most useful tests in assessing the hemostatic abnormalities in cancer patients, although thrombin time, factor V assay, and bleeding time may also be helpful. The peripheral blood smears of 53 patients were reviewed, and only one showed microangiopathic hemolytic anemia. The data illustrate that subclinical coagulopathy is relatively frequent in patients with malignancy.
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PMID:Hemostatic abnormalities in malignancy, a prospective study of one hundred eight patients. Part I. Coagulation studies. 42 Jan 61

Factor V (Va) is essential for binding of factor Xa to the surface of platelets. After thrombin treatment, normal platelets release at least five times more factor Va activity than is required for maximal factor Xa binding. The concentration of factor V activity obtained after thrombin stimulation of 10(7) normal platelets is sufficient to allow half-maximal factor Xa binding to 10(8) platelets (10% normal, 90% factor-V deficient). Therefore, factor Va activity is not limiting in platelet-surface factor Xa binding and prothrombin activation in normal platelets; some other components limit the number of binding sites. We report studies of a patient (M.S.) with a moderate to severe bleeding abnormality whose platelets are deficient in the platelet-surface component required for the factor Va-factor Xa binding. The patient's platelet factor Va activity released after thrombin treatment is normal, but factor Xa binding is 20%-25% of control values at saturation. Abnormal prothrombin consumption in a patient with normal plasma coagulation factors and platelet function suggests a disorder in platelet-surface thrombin formation.
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PMID:Deficiency of factor Xa-factor Va binding sites on the platelets of a patient with a bleeding disorder. 49 93

Ischemic optic neuropathy and retinal arterial occlusion are 2 forms of arterial occlusive disease affecting the eye. Reports in the literature suggest platelet hyperactivity in acute arterial occlusive diseases affecting other organ systems. Therefore, 14 patients with ischemic optic neuropathy and 17 patients with central or branch retinal artery occlusion were studied to determine whether platelets have a role in the pathogenesis of these vascular occlusive disorders. The results of the following investigations were no different in these patients compared with those in 18 control patients with non-vascular eye diseases: prothrombin times, partial thromboplastin times, plasma fibrinogen, factor V, factor VIII, platelet counts and threshold concentrations of ADP, epinephrine and collagen resulting in secondary platelet aggregation and serotonin release. In contrast, platelet coagulant activities concerned with the early stages of intrinsic coagulation were significantly increased in patients with retinal artery occlusion without hypertension or type IV hyperlipoproteinemia, but generally normal in patients with ischemic optic neuropathy and in patients with retinal artery occlusion associated with hypertension, type IV hyperlipoproteinemia, diabetes mellitus and generalized atherosclerosis. These results are consistent with a platelet contribution to retinal arterial occlusive disease in patients without other known contributing factors such as hypertension, serum lipid abnormalities, diabetes mellitus and generalized atherosclerosis and may have implications regarding prophylaxis.
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PMID:Platelet coagulant activities in arterial occlusive disease of the eye. 50 1

Acute generalized intravascular coagulation is regularly associated with fibrinolysis. Evidence of the clotting process includes thrombocytopenia, hypofibrinogenemia, prolongation of the prothrombin time (deficiency of factor V and fibrinogen) and of the partial thromboplastin time (factor VIII is also deficient). Evidence of fibrinolysis is elevation of fibrinolytic split products (FSP or FDP). A positive protamine gel results from both coagulation and fibrinolysis.
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PMID:Problems of diagnosis of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). 51 96

Evidence of developmental evolution of coagulation can be seen when the studies of 10 thriving extremely premature (EPT) infants are compared to normal full-term (FT) infants. The prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, and thrombin time all became shorter with increasing gestational age. Fibrinogen levels and platelet counts appear to be comparable to term infant and adult levels. Fibrin degradation products (FDP) of 10 micrograms/ml or less were found in the thriving EPT infants. When compared to healthy full-term infants, there is a definite gestational dependency of anti-thrombin III levels. Factors II and VII appear to be related to intrauterine maturation after the age of viability (24 wk), but factor VII-X complex does not. The contact factors XI, XII, high molecular weight kininogen (Fitzgerald factor), and prekallikrein (Fletcher factor) are all markedly decreased in thriving EPT infants. The mean factor V level is lower than that found in FT infants. This study confirms a gestational age dependency of factor VIII activity. The ratio of factor VIII antigen to factor VIII clotting activity is increased (2.8 vs 1.01 in FT and adults). Thriving small for gestational age (SGA) infants had coagulation studies which were not statistically different from those of thriving EPT infants. The coagulation changes which occurred in severely ill EPT were mainly in the factors which decrease during intravascular coagulation (factors I, V, and VIII). The present study suggests that because of the high antigen to activity ratio seen in thriving EPT infants, a dysfunctional or fetal factor VIII may have been produced. However, the further elevation of this ratio in the severely ill EPT infants is in keeping with a pathologic proteolysis or increased endothelial release of factor VIII antigen.
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PMID:Coagulation studies in extremely premature infants. 52 93


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