DOI: 10.1055/s-00035024

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Issue 02 · Volume 97 · 2007 DOI: 10.1055/s-007-35460

Editorial Focus

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Fateh-Moghadam, Suzanne; Gawaz, Meinrad: Retinal vein occlusion disease and platelet activation: Will antiplatelet therapy be a promising therapeutic strategy for patients with retinal vein occlusion disease in the future?

Blood Coagulation, Fibrinolysis and Cellular Haemostasis

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Baba-Ahmed, Mohamed; Le Gal, Grégoire; Couturaud, Francis; Lacut, Karine; Oger, Emmanuel; Leroyer, Christophe: High frequency of factor V Leiden in surgical patients with symptomatic venous thromboembolism despite prophylaxis
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Hsu, Ting-Chang; Nakaya, Shelley M.; Thompson, Arthur R.: Severe haemophilia B due to a 6 kb factor IX gene deletion including exon 4: Non-homologous recombination associated with a shortened transcript from whole blood
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de Bruijne, Emile L. E.; Murad, Sarwa Darwish; de Maat, Moniek P. M.; Tanck, Michael W. T.; Haagsma, Elizabeth B.; van Hoek, Bart; Rosendaal, Frits R.; Janssen, Harry L. A.; Leebeek, Frank W. G.; for the Liver and Thrombosis Study Group: Genetic variation in thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) is associated with the risk of splanchnic vein thrombosis
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Blanco-Molina, Angeles; Trujillo-Santos, Javier; Criado, Juan; Lopez, Luciano; Lecumberri, Ramón; Gutierrez, Reyes; Monreal, Manuel; for the RIETE Investigators: Venous thromboembolism during pregnancy or postpartum: Findings from the RIETE Registry
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Tomkowski, Witold Z.; Davidson, Bruce L.; Wisniewska, Joanna; Malek, Grzegorz; Kober, Jaroslaw; Kuca, Pawel; Burakowska, Barbara; Oniszh, Karina; Gallus, Alexander; Lensing, Anthonie W. A.: Accuracy of compression ultrasound in screening for deep venous thrombosis in acutely ill medical patients
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Arnason, Thomas; Wells, Philip S.; Forster, Alan J.: Appropriateness of diagnostic strategies for evaluating suspected venous thromboembolism

Platelets and Blood Cells

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Lopez-Vilchez, Irene; Escolar, Gines; Diaz-Ricart, Maribel; Fuste, Berta; Galan, Ana M.; White, James G.: Tissue factor-enriched vesicles are taken up by platelets and induce platelet aggregation in the presence of factor VIIa
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Cuisset, Thomas; Frere, Corinne; Quilici, Jacques; Morange, Pierre-Emmanuel; Saut, Noémie; Romero-Barra, Marie; Camoin, Laurence; Lambert, Marc; Juhan-Vague, Irène; Bonnet, Jean-Louis; Alessi, Marie-Christine: Lack of association between the 807 C/T polymorphism of glycoprotein Ia gene and post-treatment platelet reactivity after aspirin and clopidogrel in patients with acute coronary syndrome
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Leoncini, Giuliana; Bruzzese, Debora; Signorello, Maria Grazia; Armani, Ugo; Piana, Antonietta; Ghiglione, Davidina; Camicione, Paola: Platelet activation by collagen is increased in retinal vein occlusion
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Heidel, Florian; Lipka, Daniel B.; von Auer, Charis; Huber, Christoph; Scharrer, Inge; Hess, Georg: Addition of rituximab to standard therapy improves response rate and progression-free survival in relapsed or refractory thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and autoimmune haemolytic anaemia

Wound Healing and Inflammation/Infection

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de Maat, Moniek P. M.; Madsen, Jonna Skov; Langdahl, Bente; Bladbjerg, Else Marie; Tofteng, Charlotte Landbo; Abrahamsen, Bo; Rejnmark, Lars; Brixen, Kim; Christensen, Kaare; Jespersen, Jørgen; Kristensen, Søren Risom: Genetic variation in estrogen receptor, C-reactive protein and fibrinogen does not predict the plasma levels of inflammation markers after longterm hormone replacement therapy
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López-Bermejo, Abel; Hernández-Aguado, Ildefonso; Jarrín Vera, Inmaculada; Recasens, Mónica; Esteve, Eduardo; Casamitjana, Roser; Ricart, Wifredo; Fernández-Real, José Manuel: Sex-specific, independent associations of insulin resistance with erythrocyte sedimentation rate in apparently healthy subjects

Endothelium and Vascular Development

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Krikun, Graciela; Huang, Se-Te Joseph; Schatz, Frederick; Salafia, Carolyn; Stocco, Carlos; Lockwood, Charles J: Thrombin activation of endometrial endothelial cells: A possible role in intrauterine growth restriction
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Fernandez-L, Africa; Garrido-Martin, Eva M.; Sanz-Rodriguez, Francisco; Ramirez, Jose-Ramon; Morales-Angulo, Carmelo; Zarrabeitia, Roberto; Perez-Molino, Alfonso; Bernabéu, Carmelo; Botella, Luisa-María: Therapeutic action of tranexamic acid in hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT): Regulation of ALK-1/endoglin pathway in endothelial cells
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Muldowney III, James A. S.; Painter, Corrie A.; Sanders-Bush, Elaine; Brown, Nancy J.; Vaughan, Douglas E.: Acute tissue-type plasminogen activator release in human microvascular endothelial cells: The roles of Gαq, PLC-β, IP3 and 5,6-epoxyeicosatrienoic acid

Cardiovascular Biology and Cell Signalling

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Babinska, Anna; Azari, Bani M.; Salifu, Moro O.; Liu, Ruijie; Jiang, Xian-Cheng; Sobocka, Malgorzata B.; Boo, Dorothy; Khoury, George AI; Deitch, Jonathan S.; Marmur, Jonathan D.; Ehrlich, Yigal H.; Kornecki, Elizabeth: The F11 receptor (F11R/JAM-A) in atherothrombosis: Overexpression of F11R in atherosclerotic plaques
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Cuisset, Thomas; Frere, Corinne; Quilici, Jacques; Morange, Pierre-Emmanuel; Nait-Saidi, Lyassine; Mielot, Christopher; Bali, Laurent; Lambert, Marc; Alessi, Marie-Christine; Bonnet, Jean-Louis: High post-treatment platelet reactivity is associated with a high incidence of myonecrosis after stenting for non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes
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Kardys, Isabella; Uitterlinden, André G.; Hofman, Albert; Witteman, Jacqueline C. M.; de Maat, Moniek P. M.: Fibrinogen gene haplotypes in relation to risk of coronary events and coronary and extracoronary atherosclerosis: The Rotterdam Study

Animal Models

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Charbonneau, Sonia; Girard, François; Boudreault, Daniel; Ruel, Monique; Blais, Normand; Hardy, Jean-François: Recombinant human activated factor VII is thrombogenic in a rabbit model of cyclic flow reduction and does not reduce intra-abdominal bleeding
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Matejovic, Martin; Krouzecky, Ales; Radej, Jaroslav; Rokyta, Richard Jr.; Kralova, Hana; Radermacher, Peter; Novak, Ivan: Coagulation and endothelial dysfunction during longterm hyperdynamic porcine bacteremia – effects of selective inducible nitric oxide synthase inhibition

New Technologies, Diagnostic Tools and Drugs

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Braun, Siegmund; Watzke, Herbert; Hasenkam, Michael J.; Schwab, Michael; Wolf, Tanja; Dovifat, Clemens; Völler, Heinz: Performance evaluation of the new CoaguChek XS system compared with the established CoaguChek system by patients experienced in INR-self management

Case Report

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Nisio, Marcello Di; Soesan, Marcel; Otten, Hans-Martin: Endothelial damage of the internal carotid artery after chemoradiotherapy of the neck for a Hodgkin lymphoma
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Schäfer, Andreas; Eigenthaler, Martin; Bauersachs, Johann: Severe neutropenia under clopidogrel treatment three weeks after coronary stenting
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Nurden, Paquita; Lanza, François; Bonnafous-Faurie, Cécile; Nurden, Alan: A second report of platelet-type von Willebrand disease with a Gly233Ser mutation in the GPIBA gene

Letters to the Editor

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Terzic, Milan; Kontic-Vucinic, Olivera: Fetal head impaction as a cause of iliofemoral phlebothrombosis: Contribution to the pathogenesis of deep vein thrombosis during pregnancy
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van den Besselaar, Anton M. H. P.; Hoekstra, Martha M. C. L.; van der Meer, Felix J. M.: Quality control of CoaguChek test strips in the Netherlands
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Kruip, Marieke J. H. A.; van Vliet, Huub H. D. M.; Pattynama, Peter M. T.; Kars, Alice; van den Meiracker, Anton H.; Jie, Kon-Siong G.; Leebeek, Frank W. G.: Evaluation of the AutoDimer D-dimer assay for the exclusion of pulmonary embolism
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Mosesson, Michael W.: The effect of a thrombin exosite 2-binding DNA aptamer (HD-22) on non-catalytic thrombinenhanced fibrin polymerization