title: [Tissue plasminogen activator (T-PA) and tissue plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) in patients after head injury].
abstract: The following factors of fibrinolysis: tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) and tissue plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) play an important role in patients after trauma. Their possible mechanisms in head-injured patients remain unknown. We studied the maintenance of those markers of fibrinolysis in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid of 19 patients after severe head injury (initially GCS less than 8 p) without intracranial haematoma. We measured changes of the level of t-PA antigen and PAI-1 activity in days 0-3, 4-6 and later. T-PA antigen level in the plasma was higher than normally (4-8 ng/ml). T-Pa was present in the cerebrospinal fluid, but its level reached only 30% of the plasma level. In the days following injury the t-PA antigen level decreased. The PAI-1 activity in the plasma was normal (0-15 IU/ml). However, its activity in csf was high and reached, 80% of the plasma level and systematically increase in the following days particularly in patients who died. PAI-1 activity can be connected with the presence of damaged brain tissue and its necrosis and its increase can be a marker of poor prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Katedry i Kliniki Neurochirurgii AM w Bydgoszczy.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Beuth
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kotschy
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Kasprzak
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rość
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Osiński
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sniegocki
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D005342:Fibrinolysis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015849:Plasminogen Inactivators / Q000097:blood* / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid; D011379:Prognosis; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator / Q000097:blood* / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid
chemical_list: D015849:Plasminogen Inactivators; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator
vernacular_title: Tkankowy aktywator plazminogenu (T-PA) i inhibitor aktywatora plazminogenu (PAI-1) u chorych po urazach czaszkowo-mózgowych.