HAEMOSTATIC
BALANCE IN HAEMOPHILIACS. A NEW APPROACH.
Pantelis
E Makris, Elef Pithara.
A'
Med Prop Clinic, Thromb & Haem Unit,Thessaloniki 54636,Greece.
Haemophiliacs,
despite of the permanent defeciency of FVIII:C, do
not bleed continously . Why is that so? Is there another
haemostatic balance during non haemorragic period
of their life, or not? These questions arise from
the random findings in 6 patients suffering from von
Willebrand disease which were found to have a decrease
in Protein-C levels (<40%), and even more by the
observations of Makris and Pithara (Fibrinolysis 1990;
4, Supl 1: 109) on the PAI levels of haemophiliac and
normal persons. The aim of this study is the control
upon haemostatic balance during non haemorragic periods
of the life of people suffering from hereditary haemorragic
tendency. We examined a total of 67 persons, 15
of which were normal subjects (NS), 17 patients suffering
from mild von Willebrand disease (vWD) and 35
haemophiliacs A, (H-A). During the study we ' ve made
tests for: FVIII:C, FII:C, FVII:C, FXII:C, vWFVIII, inhibitors
of coagulation as Protein C, PrC, Antithrombin III (AT-III),
inhibitors of fibrinolysis such as Plasminogen Activator
Inhibitors, PAI , A2 -Antiplasmin (A2
-APL) and also fibrinolysis factors as plasminogen
(PLG) and tissue plasminogen activators (TPA). All
these tests were held while using the same
blood sample and with the use of chromogen substrate
methods ( Behring Chromotimer System ). Our results are
shown on table 1 *. *The Standard deviations are
not shown in the table.
FVIII vWFVIII FII FXII PrC AT-III TPA PLG PAI
A2-APL TAT*
NP
98.3 114.3 107 109.4 82.9 107.8 2.9 91.7
5.1 70.2 2.3
H-A
4.9 143.6 87 87.6 67.7 76.6 1.6 127.8
6.4 74.6 5.5
vWD
28.4 31.5 -- 96.6 55.3 80.9 1.1 112.5
5.2 75.6 1.4
Considering
X-3S for PrC, AT-III, FXII, TPA, PLG or X+3S for
PAI, A2-APL, WFVIII as a limit
orienting thrombophilic tendency we concluded that
: there wasn' t any patient who didn' t have
at least on or even more kinds of disturbances
of the above factors. By checking those results using
X2 we ' ve come up with a
very significant statisticaly difference not only
between normal subjects and haemophiliacs (X2=8.5)
but also between normal subjects and patients
suffering from von Willebrand disease (X2=
4.85).
As a result, we consider that patients with
hereditary haemorragic tendency develop certain mechanisms
which control the haemostatic balance and
protect them from non provoked haemorrages during
non haemorragic periods of their life.