Thrombosis Journal is the official journal of the Asian-Pacific Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis.
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Endothelial cell dysfunction, by promoting fibrin deposition, has been implicated in the development of multiple organ failure. Altered fibrinolysis during inflammation may participate in microvascular alterat...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2009 7:10
The Azorean population presents the highest standardized mortality rate for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) when compared to mainland Portugal and other populations. Since thrombosis is a common cause of CVD, we...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2009 7:9
The aim of this case report is to describe control of Schamberg's disease using aminaphtone. We report on the case of a 28-year-old patient who presented with multiple purpuric lesions of the lower extremities...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2009 7:8
Pulmonary artery stump thrombosis is a recognized complication after pneumonectomy. However, to our knowledge, there is only one case report of delayed development of this complication. We report the case of a...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2009 7:7
Every year, millions of people undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with intracoronary stent implantation. A patient from the PRAGUE-8 trial (Optimal pre-PCI clopidogrel loading: 600 mg before ever...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2009 7:6
A 27 year-old man who presented to the hospital with progressive lower extremity weakness, developed an acute ST elevation myocardial infarction on his second hospital day. Primary angioplasty to the left ante...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2009 7:5
Dual anti-platelet therapy with aspirin and a thienopyridine (DAT) is used to prevent stent thrombosis after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Low response to clopidogrel therapy (LR) occurs, but labor...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2009 7:4
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2009 7:3
Mild hypothermia is currently standard of care for cardiac arrest patients in many hospitals and a common belief is that hypothermia attenuates platelet aggregation. We wanted to examine the effects of clopido...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2009 7:2
A 68-year-old woman presented with acute chest pain and a greatly increased platelet count. Cardiac catheterization revealed subtotal occlusion and a thrombus-like filling defect in the right coronary artery. ...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2009 7:1
Disturbed cellular cholesterol homeostasis may lead to accumulation of cholesterol in human atheroma plaques. Cellular cholesterol homeostasis is controlled by the sterol regulatory element-binding transcripti...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:17
Activated protein C (APC) inhibits coagulation by degrading activated factor V (FVa) and factor VIII (FVIIIa), protein S (PS) functioning as a cofactor to APC.
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:16
Anticoagulation with warfarin should be stopped 4–6 days before invasive procedures to avoid bleeding complications. Despite this routine, some patients still have high International Normalized Ratio (INR) val...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:15
Increase in tissue factor (TF) and loss in thrombomodulin (TM) antigen levels has been described in various inflammatory disorders. The functional consequences of such changes in antigen concentrations in the ...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:14
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is an important cause of avoidable morbidity and mortality. However, routine prophylaxis for at-risk patients is underused. Recent guidelines issued by an international consensus g...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:13
To analyse the effects of rosiglitazone administered at different times on neointimal formation in hypercholesterolemic rabbits following vascular injury.
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:12
Although cigarette smoking is a well-established risk factor for vascular disease, the genetic mechanisms that link cigarette smoking to an increased incidence of stroke are not well understood. Genetic variat...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:11
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) and thromboembolic arterial diseases are usually considered to be distinct entities, but there is evidence to suggest that these disorders may be linked. The aim of this study was ...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:10
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia type II (HIT II) is a rare immune-mediated complication of heparin. The diagnosis of HIT is considered in patients exposed to heparin, presenting with thrombocytopenia and thro...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:9
Neck of femur fractures predispose patients to venous thromboembolism (VTE). NICE has issued guideline 46 to reduce this risk through the use of antithrombic agents. We audited our department's VTE practise by...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:8
Warfarin treatment has a narrow therapeutic range, requiring meticulous monitoring and dosage titration. Individual dosage requirement has recently partly been explained by genetic variation of the warfarin me...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:7
Atrial fibrillation affects an estimated 2.5 million Americans and incurs an average annual stroke risk of 4.5% per year. Despite warfarin reducing stroke risk by approximately 66%, prior studies show warfarin...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:6
The relationship of D-dimer and deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to assess the value of D-dimer in the detection of early DVT ...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:5
The objective was to evaluate the effects of rosiglitazone on iliac arteries of hypercholesterolemic rabbits undergoing balloon catheter injury in the contralateral iliac arteries.
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:4
Peripheral blood eosinophilia and vascular occlusions are rare occurrences in patients with pleural mesothelioma whereas eosinophilia may associate with thrombosis. We describe a patient with mesothelioma who ...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:3
Thrombosis is a recognised complication of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), in particular venous thrombosis. Arterial thrombosis, especially stroke is rare. There is a paucity of information regarding stroke ...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:2
To test the hypothesis that point-of-care assays of platelet reactivity would demonstrate reduced response to antiplatelet therapy in patients who experienced Drug Eluting Stent (DES) ST whilst on dual antipla...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2008 6:1
To our knowledge we report the first case of percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy used for the treatment of massive pulmonary embolism in the United Kingdom. Pulmonary embolism is a common disease process but ...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:20
To prospectively determine the role of platelet glycoprotein IIIa (GP IIIa) gene PlA1/PlA2 polymorphism on the long-term clinical outcome in patients with coronary artery disease undergoing coronary stenting.
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:19
Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare form of heart failure with a reported incidence of 1 per 3000 to 1 per 4000 live births and a fatality rate of 20%–50%. Onset is usually between the last month of pre...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:18
The true relationship between methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase C677T homozygosity and risk of recurrent spontaneous abortion is unknown, and it is unclear if women with these mutations should be anticoagula...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:17
Influenza infections have been associated with procoagulant changes. Whether influenza infections lead to an increased risk of pulmonary embolism remains to be established.
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:16
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:15
Although a number of studies have demonstrated the influence of ABO blood group on plasma levels of von Willebrand factor (VWF), the nature of this association and its clinical importance is still largely unkn...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:14
During gram-negative sepsis, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces tissue factor expression on monocytes. The resulting disseminated intravascular coagulation leads to tissue ischemia and worsens the prognosis of s...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:13
Oral anticoagulation compromises conventional lupus anticoagulant (LA) screening assays. Mixing studies can counteract the oral anticoagulant effect but the dilution reduces sensitivity and can generate false ...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:12
A tendency toward bleeding often undercuts the beneficial preventive effect of higher doses of a single antithrombotic drug or combined antithrombotic therapy. Although high doses of antithrombotic drugs may b...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:11
Hyperhomocysteinemia has been described as a risk factor for unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss. Increased levels of homocysteine may be due to inadequate dietary intake of folate and vitamin B12 and inherit...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:10
Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is an important complication in the peripartal and postpartal period.
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:9
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:8
Increased platelet reactivity has been implicated in cardiovascular disease – the major cause of death in patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). FcGammaRIIA is a component of glycoprotein VI and Ib-IX-V...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:7
Clopidogrel bisulfate is an antiplatelet agent used to prevent ischaemic events in patients with vascular disease. Current guidelines recommend withholding clopidogrel for 7 days pre-operatively. However these...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:6
Gender-related differences in incidence of arterial thrombosis have been a focus of interest for years. The platelet integrin αIIbβ3 is primarily responsible for the interaction between platelets and fibrinoge...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:5
To analyse histological composition and progression of carotid plaque.
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:4
Monitoring of antiplatelet therapy in patients at cardiovascular risk is difficult because existing platelet function tests are too sophisticated for clinical routine. The whole blood TEG® Platelet Mapping™ assay...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:3
Platelet adhesion and subsequent thrombus formation on a subendothelial matrix at the site of vascular damage play a crucial role in the arrest of posttraumatic bleeding but also in different pathological thro...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:2
Recommendations for urgent reversal of oral anticoagulation with vitamin K1 antagonists are largely derived from case series employing empirical dosing regimens with vitamin K1 and prothrombin complex concentrate...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2007 5:1
Benign Intracranial Hypertension (BIH) may be caused, at least in part, by intracranial sinus thrombosis. Thrombosis is normally due to derangements in blood coagulation cascade which may predispose to abnorma...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2006 4:21
Thrombosis of the ovarian vein is a rare complication which arises classically in the postpartum. We report a case of 24-year-old woman with a history of Behçet's disease, who presented with pelvic and thoraci...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2006 4:20
Adhesion of platelets onto immobilized fibrinogen is of importance in initiation and development of thrombosis. According to a recent increase in evidence of a multiple biological property of antithrombin, we ...
Citation: Thrombosis Journal 2006 4:19
Thrombosis Journal is the official journal of the Asian-Pacific Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis.
Members of APSTH are entitled to a 15% discount on the article processing charge.
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