Tranexamic acid and fibrinogen restore clotting in vitro and in vivo in cardiac thrombus associated hyperfibrinolysis with overt bleedings

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1071-1075

  Schwameis, Michael ^a   Thaler, Johannes ^a   Schober, Andreas ^a   Schörgenhofer, Christian ^a   Kulinna Cosentini, Christiane ^a   Laggner, Anton ^a   Röggla, Martin ^a   Jilma, Bernd ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIPLASMIN; APROTININ; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGEN CONCENTRATE; FOLFOX AGENT; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; KAOLIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN S; THROMBOPLASTIN; TRANEXAMIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; PLATINUM COMPLEX;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; FAINTNESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPOFIBRINOGENEMIA; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; KASABACH MERRITT SYNDROME; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MUCOSAL BLEEDING; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; ANEMIA; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CECAL NEOPLASMS; COMPLICATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FATALITY; HEART DISEASE; HEMORRHAGE; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SECONDARY; THROMBOSIS; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANEMIA; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLOOD COAGULATION; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CECAL NEOPLASMS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOLYSIS; FLUOROURACIL; HEART DISEASES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; ORGANOPLATINUM COMPOUNDS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THROMBOSIS; TRANEXAMIC ACID; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84908539020     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH14-04-0357     Document Type: Letter

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