Avaliação das plaquetas reticuladas nas sindromes falciformes / Evaluation of reticulated platelets in patients with sickle cell diseases

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2007

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Introduction: Reticulated Platelets (RPs) are youngest platelets released recently from bone marrow to the blood and are characterized by the high citoplasmatic RNA content. RPs are described as higher size, denser and more active in the formation of thrombus than mature platelets. The participation of activated platelets in vaso-occlusive process in sickle cell disease patients have been documented, but the evaluation of the RPs role has not been established at the moment. We evaluated the number and activity of RPs and correlated them with serum soluble P-selectin (sCD62p), Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Interleukin 3 (IL-3) and thrombopoetin (TPO) levels in patients with sickle cell diseases in different clinical expressions. Casuistic and Methods: Eighty-nine adult patients were studied: 38 in steady-state, 27 in hemolytic crisis (HC), 27 in vascular-occlusive crisis (CVO) and 30 healthy individuals (control group?CG). Platelet parameters including the percentage of larger platelets were obtained by an automatic hematological analyzer. Monoclonal antibodies, thiazole orange (TO) dye and flow cytometric technique were used to identify and to quantify activated platelets (anti CD41a+ and anti CD62p+), RPs (anti CD41a+ and TO+) and activated RPs (TO+ and anti CD62p+). Soluble CD62p, IL-3, IL-6 and TPO determinations were measured by ELISA tests. Results: The number of macroplatelets was significantly higher in steady-state, CVO and HC groups than in CG. The number of activated mature platelets and activated RPs was higher in all stages of the disease when compared with CG. PRs values were more elevated in group of patients with CVO than in HC and steady-state. The degree of activation was higher in PRs than in mature platelets independently on sickle cell disease phase. CVO patients showed higher serum levels of sCD62p than CG. IL-6, IL-3 and TPO serum levels were increased in sickle cell disease, but there was not a correlation between those determinations and parameters related to platelets. Conclusions: Our results suggest that PRs contribute to the thrombogenesis process in sickle cell disease. Increased serum levels of interleukins probably indicate the participation of PRs in inflammatory process which is associated to vascular-occlusive phenomenon, but apparently those inflammatory mediators do not have an effect on thrombopoiese in sickle cell disease patients

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sickle cell disease anemia falciforme plaquetas (sangue) cytokines platelets citocinas

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