Background: Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) often leads to poor outcome. The aim of the study was to assess platelet function in patients after SAH.
Methods: In this prospective observational study in patients suffering from SAH, platelet count and aggregability were assessed by multiple electrode aggregometry (MEA) over 14 days.
Results: In 12 of 18 patients, cerebral vasospasms (CVS) were diagnosed; of those, five developed delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI). We observed a significant increase in the platelet count compared to baseline from day 8 onwards (p < 0.037) and, in patients with CVS and DCI, a significant difference in outcome classified by the mRS (p = 0.047). Repeated measures ANOVA determined no differences in platelet aggregability in patients with or without CVS/DCI.
Conclusions: Besides an increase in platelet count, we detected no increase in platelet aggregability. Nevertheless, patients after SAH may have increased platelet aggregability, which is not reflected by MEA.
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World J Surg Oncol
January 2025
General Department, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Shapingba District, Chongqing, 12-24-6, Caixin Shabin City, 400030, China.
Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of TPO receptor agonists and platelet transfusion in chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia in malignant tumors.
Methods: Clinical data from 120 patients with malignant tumors who developed thrombocytopenia following chemotherapy at our hospital were retrospectively collected and randomly divided into three groups: A, B, and C, with 40 patients in each group. Group A was treated with a TPO receptor agonist (avatrombopag), group B received autologous platelet transfusion, and group C received a combination of both treatments.
Blood Cancer J
January 2025
School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Fedratinib is a predominantly JAK2 inhibitor that has shown efficacy in untreated and ruxolitinib-exposed patients with myelofibrosis (MF). Based on randomized clinical trial data, it is approved for use in patients with International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS) or Dynamic International Prognostic Scoring System (DIPSS) intermediate-2 or high-risk disease and is distinguished from ruxolitinib in that it can be administered without dose reduction in patients with thrombocytopenia, to a platelet count above 50,000/µL. In these trials, fedratinib achieved significant spleen volume reduction in ~30-45% of patients and improvement in total symptom scores in 35-40% with good tolerability.
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November 2024
Department of Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is a critical emergency. Conventional scoring models for patients with UGIB have limitations; thus, more suitable tools for the Emergency Department are necessary. We aimed to develop a new model that can identify significant predictors of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission in Emergency Department patients with UGIB and to compare its predictive accuracy with that of existing models.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The aim of this study was to explore the value of heparin-binding protein (HBP) in the early recognition of sepsis coagulopathy (SIC) and the prognosis of sepsis patients.
Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed for 139 patients with sepsis admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Hefei Third People's Hospital from April 2022 through April 2024. The clinical baseline data, disease scores [sequential organ failure (SOFA) score, acute physiology and chronic health status (APACHE II) score, and SIC score], inflammatory markers [HBP, procalcitonin (PCT), and interleukin 6 (IL-6)], coagulation-related indexes [platelet count (PLT), prothrombin time (PT), prothrombin time international normalized ratio (PT-INR), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), fibrinogen (Fib), and D dimer (D-D)], and the survival time and 28-day prognosis of all patients were observed.
Background: Platelets are correlated with myeloid leukemia (ML), but to date, there have been no studies confirming the causal relationship between them.
Methods: Platelet count (PLT), mean platelet volume (MPV), plateletcrit (PCT), and platelet distribution width (PDW) data were obtained from the GWAS catalog database as exposure factors. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) data were obtained from the FinnGen database as outcome indicators.
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