Activation of the coagulation cascade in patients with leptospirosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 254-260

  Chierakul, Wirongrong ^a   Tientadakul, Panatsaya ^b   Suputtamongkol, Yupin ^b   Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn ^a   Phimda, Kriangsak ^c   Limpaiboon, Roongrueng ^c   Opartkiattikul, Nisarat ^b   White, Nicholas J ^a,d   Peacock, Sharon J ^a,d   Day, Nicholas P ^a,d  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c Medical Department   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN III; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN; PROTHROMBIN; THROMBIN ANTITHROMBIN COMPLEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; THAILAND; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTITHROMBIN III; BLOOD COAGULATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PLATELET COUNT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTHROMBIN; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 39449124709     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524664     Document Type: Article

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