title: Poor fibrinolytic response to venous occlusion by different criteria in patients with deep vein thrombosis.
abstract: Five criteria for poor response to a 20 min venous occlusion test were applied to 58 patients 3 months or more after acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT). The criteria were arbitrarily defined as the last 5 percentiles of response distributions in an age- and sex-matched healthy control group of 51 subjects. The criteria were: 1. euglobulin clot lysis time after venous occlusion greater than or equal to 140 min; 2. t-PA activity after venous occlusion less than or equal to 0.04 IU/ml; 3. increase in t-PA antigen above resting value less than or equal to 2-fold; 4. ratio between t-PA antigen increase and resting PAI activity less than or equal to 0.5 ng/IU; 5. PAI activity after venous occlusion greater than or equal to 6 IU/ml. The last criterion of poor response was the only one that was significantly more frequently reached by patients than by controls: 28% (p less than 0.005) of all DVT patients and 35% (p less than 0.005) of the subgroup with idiopathic DVT (N = 34) were found to be poor responders. The percentage of poor responders according to the other four criteria was 7-11% in all patients and 9-15% in the subgroup with idiopathic DVT and thus was not significantly higher than in controls (5% by definition). It was concluded that residual PAI activity after venous occlusion might be a useful criterion for prospective studies on recurrence of DVT.
authors.affiliation: University Medical Centre, Trnovo Hospital of Internal Medicine, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stegnar
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Peternel
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Keber
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vene
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003250:Constriction; D005260:Female; D005342:Fibrinolysis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015849:Plasminogen Inactivators / Q000032:analysis; D012008:Recurrence; D012307:Risk Factors; D013924:Thrombophlebitis / Q000097:blood / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D015849:Plasminogen Inactivators; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator