• Der Anaesthesist · Aug 1997

    Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical Trial

    [D-dimer, thrombin-antithrombin III-complex (TAT) and prothrombin fragment 1+2 (PTF). Parameters for monitoring therapy with low molecular-weight heparin in coagulation disorders].

    • M Hofmann, A Rest, G Hafner, B Tanner, P Brockerhoff, and L S Weilemann.
    • Universitäts-Frauenklinik Mainz.
    • Anaesthesist. 1997 Aug 1; 46 (8): 689-96.

    AbstractTwo groups of 15 patients each with disseminated intravascular coagulation in association with septic disease were treated with low-molecular-weight heparin (lmw-heparin) in different dosages (group I: 1.5-5 IE/kg body weight (BW) per hour; group II: 8-15 IE/kg BW). We studied the levels of D-dimer, thrombin-antithrombin III complex (TAT), prothrombin fragments 1 and 2 (PTF), and global tests of coagulation like prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (PTT), thrombin time (TT) and platelet count, plasminogen activation (PA) and fibrinogen concentration to estimate the success of heparin therapy in the two groups. TT and fibrinogen concentration were not suitable to follow the course of the coagulation disorder, PT, PTT, platelet count progressively PA, D-dimer, TAT, and PTF normalised progressively after heparinisation. However, only the last three parameters were sensitive enough to show different effects of variable dosages of lmw-heparin. D-dimer, TAT, and PTF levels declined in proportion with heparin concentrations, and thus appear to be the most useful parameters for monitoring the therapeutic effect of heparin in septic coagulopathies.

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