title: Coagulation and fibrinolytic responses of human peritoneal fluid and plasma to bacterial peritonitis.
abstract: Significantly higher (P < 0.05) thrombin-antithrombin III complex levels were found in the abdominal exudate of patients with peritonitis (median 5500 ng/ml) than in that of controls (median 89 ng/ml). In patients, peritoneal fluid concentrations of tissue and urokinase-type plasminogen activator were increased by factors of 65 and 10 respectively (P < 0.05). The concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI) 1 was increased by a factor of about 800 (median 395 versus 0.5 ng/ml, P < 0.05). Despite markedly raised concentrations of PAI, peritoneal fluid displayed fibrinolytic activity as demonstrated by significantly increased (P < 0.05) concentrations of plasmin-alpha 2-antiplasmin complex (median 10,952 versus 57 ng/ml) and fibrin degradation products (median 40,360 versus 126 ng/ml). There was no correlation between plasma and peritoneal fluid concentrations. Intraabdominal coagulation and fibrinolysis are stimulated in the abdominal cavity of patients with bacterial peritonitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University Hospital Groningen, Netherlands.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: van Goor
authors.forename: V J
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: Bom
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van der Meer
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Sluiter
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Bleichrodt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000990:Antithrombin III / Q000378:metabolism*; D001202:Ascitic Fluid / Q000378:metabolism*; D001777:Blood Coagulation / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D005122:Exudates and Transudates / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005341:Fibrinolysin / Q000378:metabolism; D005342:Fibrinolysis / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism*; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000097:blood* / Q000382:microbiology; D017395:Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1 / Q000378:metabolism; D015849:Plasminogen Inactivators / Q000378:metabolism; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator / Q000378:metabolism; D014568:Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator / Q000378:metabolism; D000979:alpha-2-Antiplasmin / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D017395:Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1; D015849:Plasminogen Inactivators; D000979:alpha-2-Antiplasmin; C046193:antithrombin III-protease complex; D000990:Antithrombin III; D010447:Peptide Hydrolases; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator; D005341:Fibrinolysin; D014568:Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator