...Walter-Michael Halbmayer; Alexander Haushofer; Renate Schön; Johannes Radek; Michael Fischer A new automated kinetically determined fibrinogen assay was measured in plasmas of healthy subjects and three clinical cohorts (acute-phase reaction, liver cirrhosis and fibrinolytic therapy) that were...

... patients with biopsy-proven liver cirrhosis and related coagulation abnormalities received in a random order dDAVP, 0.5 μg/kg, or saline intravenously. Blood samples were taken before dDAVP infusion and 30, 60 and 180 min after its end. dDAVP infusion induced a statistically significant shortening...

...I. Tornai; J. Hársfalvi; Z. Boda; M. Udvardy; G. Pfliegler; K. Rak Venous occlusion was used in 8 patients with liver cirrhosis and in 10 normals to investigate the pathomechanism of long-term elevation of plasma von Willebrand factor antigen (vWFAg) in liver cirrhosis. The following parameters...

...Maurizio De Caterina; Giovanni Tarantino; Carmela Farina; Amalia Arena; Giosuè di Maro; Pasquale Esposito; Francesco Scopacasa Liver cirrhosis leads to a protido-synthetic impairment that alters the levels of blood clotting factors and haemostasis. The aim of this study was to assess...

...F. Marongiu; G. Mameli; M.R. Acca; G. Mulas; A. Medda; M.B. Tronci; A.M. Mamusa; A. Balestrieri In order to detect even minimal fibrinolysis activation in liver cirrhosis, we measured fibrinopeptide Bβ 15–42 (Bβ 15–42), an indicator of plasmin activity in vivo and α 2 -antiplasmin (α 2 -AP...

...F. Violi; C. Alessandri; M. Saliola; V. Caputo; M.S. Bonavita; F. Balsano Hepatic blood flow (HBF) has been reported to reflect liver cell mass. HBF was studied in 21 patients with chronic active hepatitis (CAH) and in 20 patients with liver cirrhosis (LC). It was correlated with such indices...

... /. Feinstein Division of Hematology, Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif., USA Key Words. Liver cirrhosis Fibrinolysis Hemorrhage Abstract. We compared site and severity of bleeding in 46 patients with cirrhosis of the liver and accelerated fibrinolysis...

..., bleeding is related more to the appearance of disseminated intravascular coagulation, as a consequence of both hemodynamic and endothelial changes, than to the degree of hepatic failure itself. 14 01 1983 11 07 1983 21 4 2009 Liver cirrhosis Disseminated intravascular coagulation...

... and plasminogen were significantly decreased in chronic active hepatitis as well as in liver cirrhosis. Alpha 2 -antiplasmin levels in chronic active hepatitis patients did not differ from controls; liver cirrhotic patients, on the contrary, showed significantly low values of alpha 2 -antiplasmin. Prekk, ATIII...

...M. Orlando; P. Casalbore; A. Camagna; R. Lauro; L. Tardella; H.J. Hassan Factor VII activity and factor VII cross-reacting material (CRM) in plasma of patients with liver cirrhosis have been studied before and after vitamin K 1 parenteral administration. Subjects were divided into two groups...

...M.H. Aurousseau; J.L. d’Angeli; F. Josso In patients with liver cirrhosis, a close relationship was observed between the respective levels of antithrombin III and prothrombin, both below 50% in 20 out 27 patients. The absence of any thrombotic complication, despite low plasma antithrombin III...

... to an ‘acquired dysfibrinogenaemia’ in the late stages of liver cirrhosis, although alteration of a normal fibrinogen molecule after secretion cannot be definitely excluded. Haemostasis 6: 137-148 (1977) Impaired Fibrin Formation in Advanced Cirrhosis A nton G iulio D ettori, Oreste Ponari, Emilio Civardi...

...S. Coccheri; G. Palareti; P.R. Dalmonte; M. Poggi; O. Boggian Soluble fibrin monomer complexes (SFMC) have been quantitated in 18 patients with liver cirrhosis by means of plasma gel filtration on an agarose column. The concentration of SFMC (as related to total fibrinogen) was increased...