A pathological inhibitor of fibrin cross-linking

AUTOR(ES)

Lorand, L.

RESUMO

Lewis et al. recently reported on a patient who died of hemorrhages attributable to an acquired inhibitor of fibrin-stabilizing factor. They indicated that the inhibitor was associated with the immune globulins. Using the postmortem serum in the isolated fibrin cross-linking system, we have now further localized the site of inhibition in the scheme of blood coagulation. The interference occurs at the transpeptidation step catalyzed by the thrombin-activated fibrin-stabilizing factor. The patient's serum also uniquely delayed the clotting time of Homarus plasma, a test for specific inhibitors of transpeptidation. Since the inhibitor was effective in two such widely different systems, it probably is not an antibody, but falls into the category of cross-linking inhibitors which we have previously described (4, 5, 10, 12-17). While the exact nature of the inhibitor remains unknown, we raise the question whether some unusual metabolic transformation of isonicotinic acid hydrazide (with which the patient was treated and which itself we found to be a potent inhibitor fibrin cross-linking), in combination with a macromolecule, might not have given rise to an inhibitory compound.

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