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Low Levels of Thrombin Activatable Fibrinolysis Inhibitor (TAFI) in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease

2001; Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany); Volume: 85; Issue: 04 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1055/s-0037-1615651

2567-689X

Magdalene M. George, Jawed Fareed, David Van Thiel,

Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes

Thrombin Activatable Fibrinolysis Inhibitor (TAFI) is a 60 kappaD glycoprotein present in plasma that regulates fibrinolysis by limiting the amount of fibrin available for fibrinolysis by tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA). Chronic liver disease is well-known to be associated with a low-grade fibrinolytic syndrome that under the appropriate stimulus proceeds to an overt disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) with demonstrable bleeding. In the present study, TAFI activity was measured in the plasma of 74 patients with advanced liver disease, and the levels of TAFI were related to those of other important coagulation and fibrinolytic factors. TAFI levels were very low and essentially undetectable in the plasma of patients with advanced hepatocellular liver disease. No relationship with the degradation products of fibrin was evident.