Affiliation:
1. Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan
Abstract
Substantial evidence suggests that spontaneous thrombolytic activity of blood is an effective mechanism for protection against tissue damage that is the consequence of lasting arterial occlusion. Despite the generally held belief that coronary artery disease and stroke are preventable, a promising avenue of prevention, namely the identification and prophylactic treatment of those at risk of inefficient spontaneous thrombolysis, has been neglected. This is mainly due to the lack of physiologically relevant test. A recently described technique allows the measurement of spontaneous thrombolysis, that is, lysis of an autologous platelet-rich thrombus in the absence of added plasminogen activators. Early results suggest that this test may have significant clinical potential both in identifying those at risk from fatal thrombotic event and in finding new therapeutic avenues of improving spontaneous thrombolytic activity.
Subject
Hematology,General Medicine
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