On the Effect of Heparin at Various Concentrations with Particular Reference to Increased Heparin Resistance Measured by the Plasma Heparin Thrombin Time

T Holger-Madsen

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1654586

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 1961; 6(03): 573-579
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1654586

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On the Effect of Heparin at Various Concentrations with Particular Reference to Increased Heparin Resistance Measured by the Plasma Heparin Thrombin Time^[*]

T Holger-Madsen

¹Medical Department F, the Laboratory (Head: Prof. F. Wulff), the Copenhagen County Hospital in Gentofte, Hellerup, Denmark

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Abstract

Summary

The heparin thrombin time was investigated in platelet-poor citrated plasma by determining the clotting time with thrombin after addition of heparin. At increasing heparin concentrations the heparin thrombin time was prolonged, reaching a maximum at a certain concentration. At higher concentrations the effect of heparin decreased, the heparin thrombin time getting shorter. At the highest concentrations there was again a full heparin effect, the heparin thrombin time being again prolonged to a maximum. In a study of plasma from patients with increased heparin resistance, in the form of a shortening of the heparin thrombin time in relation to normal, this was found to apply within all the studied ranges of heparin concentration.

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On the Effect of Heparin at Various Concentrations with Particular Reference to Increased Heparin Resistance Measured by the Plasma Heparin Thrombin Time[*]

On the Effect of Heparin at Various Concentrations with Particular Reference to Increased Heparin Resistance Measured by the Plasma Heparin Thrombin Time^[*]