Diagnosis of Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation by Hemostatic Molecular Markers

ABSTRACT

In the present study, the positive rate of thrombin-antithrombin complex (TAT), plasmin-plasmin inhibitor complex (PPIC), soluble fibrin monomer (sFM), and D-dimer for the diagnosis of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) was evaluated. The study comprised 307 patients with DIC, 123 with pre-DIC, and 121 with non-DIC. Plasma levels of TAT, PPIC, sFM, and D-dimer were significantly higher in DIC and pre-DIC patients than in non-DIC patients. In DIC patients, the positive rate of sFM was high and that of D-dimer was low; the positive rate of PPIC was higher in patients with hematopoietic malignancy than in those without this disease. In pre-DIC patients, the positive rate of all markers was low (<0.16), and the positive rate of PPIC was relatively high. In non-DIC patients, the positive rate of all hemostatic markers was low (<0.16), that of sFM being the lowest. Scoring the positive rate of TAT, PPIC, and sFM disclosed the following results: 72% of DIC patients had three or more points, 17.6% of pre-DIC patients had three or more points, and almost all (96.6%) non-DIC patients had two or less points. Scoring the positive rate of TAT, PPIC, and D-dimer disclosed the following results: 52.9% of DIC patients and 27.4% of pre-DIC patients had three or more points and almost all (96.7%) non-DIC patients had 2 or less points. These data suggest that the combination of TAT, PPIC, and sFM is useful for making the diagnosis of DIC.

KEYWORD

DIC - pre-DIC - TAT - PPIC - sFM

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