Measurement of plasma fibrinogen concentration by the prothrombin-time- derived method: Applicability and limitations

Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 251-259

  De Cristofaro, R ^a   Landolfi, R ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fibrinogen assays; Prothrombin time test

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; HIRUDIN; THROMBIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; TURBIDITY;

EID: 0031858875     PISSN: 09575235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001721-199804000-00006     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Wilhelmsen L, Svardsudd K, Korsan-Bengtsen K, Larson B, Welin L, Tibblin G. Fibrinogen as a risk for stroke and myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med 1984; 311: 501-505.
2. Kannel WB, Wolf PA, Castelli WP, D'Agostino RB. Fibrinogen and risk of cardiovascular disease. The Framingham Study. JAMA 1987; 258: 1183-1186.
3. Heinrich J, Balleisen L, Schulte H, Assmann G, van de Loo J. Fibrinogen and factor VII in the prediction of coronary risk. Results from the PROCAM study in healthy men. Arteriosclerosis Thromb 1994; 14: 54-59.
4. Mancini G, Carbonara AO, Heremans JF. Immunochemical quantitation of antigens by single radial immunodiffusion. Immunochemistry 1965; 2: 235-254.
5. Desvignes P, Bonnet P. Direct determination of plasma fibrinogen levels by heat precipitation: a comparison of the techniques against thrombin clottable fibrinogen with spectrophotometry and radial immunodiffusion. Clin Chim Acta 1981; 110: 9-17.
6. Clauss A. Gerinnunsphysiologische Schnellmethode zur Bestimmung des Fibrinogens. Acta Haematol 1957; 17: 237-246.
7. Chantarangkul V, Tripodi A, Mannucci PM. Evaluation of a fully automated centrifugal analyzer for performance of hemostasis tests. Clin Chem 1987; 33: 1888-1890.
8. Rossi E, Lombardi A, Preda L. Method for the determination of functional (clottable) fibrinogen by the new family of ACL coagulometers. Thromb Res 1988; 52: 453-468.
9. Tan V, Doyle CJ, Budzynski AZ. Comparison of the kinetic fibrinogen assay with the Clauss method and the clot recovery method in plasma of patients with conditions affecting fibrinogen coagulability. Am J Clin Pathol 1995; 104: 455-462.
10. Jacobsson K. Studies on the determination of fibrinogen in human blood plasma. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 1955; 7(suppl 14): 1-54.
11. Gaffney PJ, Wong MY. Collaborative study of a proposed international standard for plasma fibrinogen measurement. Thromb Haemost 1992; 68: 428-432.
12. Chantarangkul V, Tripodi A, Mannucci PM. Results of a collaborative study for fibrinogen measurement. Evidence that the use of a common calibrator improves interlaboratory agreement. Blood Coag Fibrinol 1994; 5: 761-766.
13. Kitchen S, Jennings I, Preston FE. Comparison of fibrinogen determinations using a Clauss assay and two prothrombin time derived methods [abstract]. Thromb Haemost 1995; 73: 1245.
14. Palareti G, Maccaferri M, Manotti C. Fibrinogen assays: a collaborative study of six different methods. Clin Chem 1991; 37: 714-719.
15. Hantgan RR, Hermans J. Assembly of fibrin. A light scattering study. J Biol Chem 1979; 254: 11272-11281.
16. Casassa EF. Light scattering from very rod-like particles and an application to polymerized fibrinogen. J Phys Chem 1955; 23: 596-597.
17. De Cristofaro R, Rocca B, Bizzi B, Landolfi R. The linkage between binding of the C-terminal domain of hirudin and amidase activity in human a-thrombin. Biochem J 1993; 289: 475-480.
18. Laudano AP, Doolittle RF. Synthetic peptide derivatives that bind to fibrinogen and prevent the polymerization of fibrin monomers. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1978; 75: 3085-3090.
19. Bouton MC, Jandrot-Perrus M, Bezeaud A, Guillin MC. Late-fibrin(ogen) fragment E modulates human a-thrombin specificity. Eur J Biochem 1993; 215: 143-149.
20. Deming WE. Statistical adjustment of data. New York: Dover Publications Inc.; 1964. pp. 14-36.
21. Weisel JW, Nagaswami C. Computer modeling of fibrin polymerization kinetics correlated with microscope and turbidity observations: clot structure and assembly are kinetically controlled. Biophys J 1992; 63: 111-128.
22. Bänninger H, Lämmle B, Furlan M. Binding of a-thrombin to fibrin depends on the quality of the fibrin network. Biochem J 1994; 298: 157-163.