FAMILIAL HEMORRHAGIC TRAIT ASSOCIATED WITH A DEFICIENCY OF A CLOT-PROMOTING FRACTION OF PLASMA
FAMILIAL HEMORRHAGIC TRAIT ASSOCIATED WITH A DEFICIENCY OF A CLOT-PROMOTING FRACTION OF PLASMA
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DOI:
10.1172/jci103109
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发表时间:
1955-01-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
COLOPY, JE
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作者:
RATNOFF, OD;COLOPY, JE
Patients (3) were studied in whom the clotting time of venous blood was greatly prolonged but without significant hemorrhagic symptoms. The trait was apparently familial and appeared in both sexes. The patients'' disorder could not be identified with any known bleeding disease. The plasma was deficient in a substance found in normal globulin which accelerated the clotting of normal, platelet-deficient plasma. This clot-promoting fraction, present in heated, barium sulfate-adsorbed serum, was neither thrombic or thromboplastic and did not alter the rate of conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin by thrombin, nor of prothrombin to thrombin by tissue thromboplastin. By inferences, its effect was upon an earlier stage of clotting, presumably upon the development of thromboplastic activity in shed blood. The fraction did not appear to contain any of the components of plasma known to be necessary for the optimal evolution of plasma thromboplastic activity. The method by which the clot-promoting fraction influenced the development of thromboplastic activity was not defined. Normal native globulin shortened the clotting time of normal native plasma in silicone-coated tubes, whereas the patients'' native globulin was without effect. Hemophilic native globulin was less effective than the normal in shortening the clotting time of normal native plasma, even though hemophilic plasma contained the same amount of the clot-promoting fraction as normal plasma. One possible hypothesis is that the clot-promoting fraction exerts its action in association with the anti-hemophilic factor. Temporarily the clot-promoting fraction is designated "Hageman factor", and its deficiency "Hageman trait", after the 1st patient observed. The 3 patients indicate that it is possible to have a prolonged clotting time for many years without obvious harm.