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BLOOD ADVANCES
卷 5, 期 2, 页码 391-398出版社
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DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020003464
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- CSL Behring
Elevated levels of free TFPI alpha were identified in patients with bleeding tendencies compared to healthy controls, potentially linked to unknown bleeding causes or platelet function defects. The increase in free TFPI alpha was associated with a mild delay in thrombin generation, without affecting routine global clotting tests.
High levels of tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI), caused by a longer TFPI alpha half-life after binding to a factor V splice variant and variants in the F5 gene, were recently identified in 2 families with an as-yet-unexplained bleeding tendency. This study aimed to investigate free TFPI alpha in a well-characterized cohort of 620 patients with mild to moderate bleeding tendencies and its association to genetic alterations in the FS gene. TFPI alpha levels were higher in patients with bleeding compared with healthy controls (median [interquartile range], 8.2 [5.5-11.7] vs 7.8 [4.3-11.1]; P = .026). A higher proportion of patients had free TFPI alpha levels more than or equal to the 95th percentile compared with healthy controls (odds ratio [OR] [95% confidence interval (CI)], 2.82 [0.98-8.13]). This was pronounced in the subgroup of patients in whom no bleeding disorder could be identified (bleeding of unknown cause [BUC; n = 420]; OR [95% CI], 3.03 [1.02-8.98]) and in platelet function defects (PFDs) (n = 121; OR [95% CI], 3.47 [1.09-11.081). An increase in free TFPI alpha was associated with a mild delay in thrombin generation (prolonged lag time and time to peak), but not with alterations in routinely used global clotting tests. We could neither identify new or known genetic variations in the F5 gene that are associated with free TFPI alpha levels, nor an influence of the single-nucleotide variant rs10800453 on free TFPI alpha levels in our patient cohort. An imbalance of natural coagulation inhibitors such as TFPI alpha could be an underlying cause or contributor for unexplained bleeding, which is most probably multifactorial in a majority of patients.
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