Avaliação da geração de trombina nas fases inicias da sepse em pacientes com nenplasias hematológicas e netropenia febril / Evaluation of thrombin generation in the early stages of sepsis in patients with hematological malignancies and febrile neutropenia

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

29/08/2011

RESUMO

Patients with febrile neutropenia are at increased risk of severe infections and complications of sepsis. The uncontrolled activation of coagulation is one of the most striking features of sepsis. The clinical and laboratory most characteristic of this activation is called disseminated intravascular coagulation. The pathophysiology of disseminated intravascular coagulation is characterized by activation of coagulation by anomalous intravascular expression of tissue factor, the consumption of natural inhibitors of coagulation and excessive release of PAI-1, leading to hipofibrinolysis. The net resulting picture of these processes is the hypercoagulability. It is believed that some of the complications of sepsis, including the so-called multiple organ failure, is due to thrombosis of microvasculature and tissue ischemia. Thus, the study of disseminated intravascular coagulation has great clinical relevance. Laboratory evaluation of hemostasis in patients with sepsis and disseminated intravascular coagulation is limited because the available tests do not depict in a comprehensive and completely way the results of all these processes in hemostasis. Moreover, it is recognized that this assessment is only relevant if done in more than one time-point along during disease progression to capture the trends of variables such as prothrombin time, D dimers and fibrinogen. For this reason, the so-called global tests of hemostasis, able to assess more fully the interaction of all the above processes are gaining importance in recent years. In patients with sepsis, thrombin generation test has been evaluated on single measures, showing results that show slowing the process of coagulation activation. These results are distinct from those classically accepted which assume that hypercoagulability would be present in early phases of sepsis. However, the number of patients in these studies is scarce, and none of them evaluated the temporal variation of this parameter. In our study we evaluated the test parameters of thrombin generation in patients with sepsis and febrile neutropenia. The evaluation was performed at baseline, at the time of fever and 48 hours thereafter. In addition, we evaluated classical parameters of hemostasis. Our results contradict the hypothesis of the presence of hypercoagulabilit in the early stages of sepsis and deserve further evaluation in larger studies. No parameter of thrombin generation was able to segregate patients with higher risk to progress to septic shock.

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sangue - coagulação testes de coagulação sanguínea coagulação intravascular disseminada diagnóstico blood coagulation blood coagulation tests disseminated intravascular coagulation diagnostic

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