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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-2-21
pubmed:abstractText
Hyperfibrinolytic activity occurs frequently during liver transplantation in cirrhotic patients. In order to identify those patients at high risk for increased intraoperative blood loss before operation, we determined predictive indicators of hyperfibrinolysis. We studied 56 cirrhotic patients undergoing liver transplantation with the same anaesthetic procedure and transfusion regimen. The preoperative coagulation patterns of the 11 patients who experienced acute intraoperative hyperfibrinolytic activity were compared with those of the 45 patients who did not suffer this complication. Before surgery, patients with intraoperative hyperfibrinolysis had decreased prothrombin time (PT) and euglobulin lysis time (ELT), and increased thrombin time (TT) and fibrinogen degradation products (FDP), whereas alpha angle and maximum amplitude (MA) were reduced on thrombelastography. Stepwise multivariate analysis disclosed three components which were significantly linked with occurrence of hyperfibrinolysis: TT, FDP and MA. Their sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values demonstrated that patients with FDP > or = 48 mg litre-1 and MA < or = 35 mm before incision had 100% probability of developing hyperfibrinolytic activity during transplantation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0007-0912
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
73
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
645-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Predictive factors of hyperfibrinolytic activity during liver transplantation in cirrhotic patients.
pubmed:affiliation
Service of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Strasbourg-Hautepierre, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article