Fibrin detected in plasma of patients with disseminated intravascular coagulation by fibrin-specific antibodies consists primarily of high molecular weight factor XIIIa-crosslinked and plasmin-modified complexes partially containing fibrinopeptide A

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1069-1078

  Pfitzner, Susanne A ^a   Dempfle, Carl Erik ^a,c   Matsuda, Michio ^b   Heene, Dieter L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8A; D DIMER; FIBRIN; FIBRIN ANTIBODY; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOPEPTIDE A; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PLASMIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DISSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS;

EID: 0030870378     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1657689     Document Type: Article

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