Fibrinolysis in cerebrospinal fluid after intraventricular haemorrhage.
Concentrations of cross linked fibrin degradation products were measured in the cerebrospinal fluid from five 'normal' preterm infants (median 102 ng/ml), four preterm infants with intraventricular haemorrhage (median 315 ng/ml), and five infants with progressive post-haemorrhagic ventricular dilatation (median 1000 ng/ml). Serial samples of cerebrospinal fluid from one infant showed a peak concentration two weeks after the haemorrhage.
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Department of Paediatrics and Neonatal Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London.
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Gaffney
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D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid* / Q000473:pathology; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic; D005338:Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D005342:Fibrinolysis / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid* / Q000473:pathology
D005338:Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products