Prevalence of Protein C Deficiency in Patients with Cardiovascular Problems in Japan
Prevalence of Protein C Deficiency in Patients with Cardiovascular Problems in Japan
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日本心血管疾病患者蛋白质 C 缺乏症的患病率
DOI:
10.1055/s-0037-1614499
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
T. Miyata
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文献类型:
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作者:
T. Sakata;Y. Katayama;T. Matsuyama;H. Kato;T. Miyata
Our results are comparable to those of Halbmayer et al. (2) where APC-R was observed in 17% of patients with juvenile strokes. However, it is significantly higher than the 7% observed by Cushman et al. (1) in patients with idiopathic arterial thrombosis. This difference may be due to inclusion of the lower age group (<40 years) and only non embolic cerebral arterial infarct cases in our study in contrast to higher age (<55 years) and a large variety of arterial diseases in his study. Subsequent studies by Halbmayer et al., using the modified APC test, didn’t confirm the high APC-R by classical method in their previous study. This was attributed to large number of pre-analytical factors. On the contrary, in our study all cases which had APC-R by Dahlbäck’s method were observed to be positive by the modified test as well. This may be because of strict exclusion of patients with lupus anticoagulant, or oral anticoagulant therapy in our study, thereby reducing its false positivity. Moreover, the modified test, which is considered as specific as genotyping of FV Leiden detected APC resistance in patients with borderline results of classical APC test. This might suggest an added diagnostic advantage of the modified over the classical APC test especially when the preanalytic factors affecting it are minimised. It is thus concluded that APC resistance may have a prethrombotic potential in arterial thrombosis and must be identified to enable administration of adjunct prophylactic oral anticoagulant therapy in these patients. However further studies on genetic identification of factor V Leiden mutation in them are required. Sujata Mohanty, Renu Saxena, Madhuri Behari 2 From the Department of Haematology, Department of Neurosciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
影响因子:
158.5
作者:
MILETICH, J;SHERMAN, L;BROZE, G
通讯作者:
BROZE, G