Abstract
Recent clinical studies comparing accelerated versus bolus administration of alteplase tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) suggest similar thrombolytic efficacy, but reveal higher bleeding complications among older patients during the double-bolus regimen. The objective of the present study was to characterize the hemostatic profile of t-PA administered as double-bolus doses of 50 mg, at intervals of 30 minutes. Among 50 patients with acute myocardial infarction treated by double-bolus t-PA thrombolysis, coagulation and fibrinolysis parameters, as well as t-PA levels, were monitored. Monitored t-PA levels peaked at 5 and 35 minutes and were detectable within the therapeutic range even after 90 minutes. Marked systemic fibrinolytic activation was indicated by 75% depletion of both plasminogen and fibrinogen, as well as by 19-fold and 300-fold increases of fibrin degradation and fibrinogen degradation products. Plasminogen-activator inhibitor activity was completely suppressed. Pronounced procoagulant activation was reflected by a 3.4-fold increase of both factor XIIa and prothrombin fragment 1+2, and by a threefold increase of thrombin-antithrombin complex. Independent of t-PA weight dosage, fibrinolytic activation was more pron...Continue Reading
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