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How to manage coagulopathies in critically ill patients. Intensive Care Med 2023; 49:273-290. [PMID: 36808215 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-023-06980-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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Coagulopathy is a severe and frequent complication in critically ill patients, for which the pathogenesis and presentation may be variable depending on the underlying disease. Based on the dominant clinical phenotype, the current review differentiates between hemorrhagic coagulopathies, characterized by a hypocoagulable and hyperfibrinolysis state, and thrombotic coagulopathies with a systemic prothrombotic and antifibrinolytic phenotype. We discuss the differences in pathogenesis and treatment of the common coagulopathies.
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Fu S, Yu S, Wang L, Ma X, Li X. Unfractionated heparin improves the clinical efficacy in adult sepsis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Anesthesiol 2022; 22:28. [PMID: 35062871 PMCID: PMC8777179 DOI: 10.1186/s12871-021-01545-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Background The anticoagulant treatment and clinical efficacy of heparin in sepsis remains controversial. We conducted a meta-analysis to estimate the clinical efficacy of unfractionated heparin (UFH) in adult septic patients. Method A systematic review of Medline, Cochrane Library, PubMed, Embase, WEIPU database, CNKI database, WANFANG database was performed from inception to January 2021. We included Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and the main outcome was 28 d mortality. Data analysis was performed with Review Manager (RevMan) version 5.3 software. The meta-analysis included 2617 patients from 15 RCTs. Results Comparing to control group, UFH could reduce 28 d mortality (RR: 0.82; 95% CI: 0.72 to 0.94) especially for patient with Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) > 15, (RR: 0.83; 95% CI: 0.72 to 0.96). In UFH group, the platelet (PLT) (MD: 9.18; 95% CI: 0.68 to 17.68) was higher, the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) was shorter (MD: -8.01; 95% CI: − 13.84 to − 2.18) and the prothrombin time (PT) results (P > 0.05) failed to reach statistical significance. UFH decreased multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) incidence (RR: 0.61; 95% CI: 0.45 to 0.84), length of stay (LOS) in ICU (MD: -4.94; 95% CI: − 6.89 to − 2.99) and ventilation time (MD: -3.01; 95% CI: − 4.0 to − 2.02). And UFH had no adverse impact on bleeding (RR: 1.10; 95% CI: 0.54 to 2.23). Conclusion This meta-analysis suggests that UFH may reduce 28 d mortality and improve the clinical efficacy in sepsis patients without bleeding adverse effect. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12871-021-01545-w.
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Britton GW, Babcock C, Colombo CJ. All Organ Dysfunctions Are Equal…But Some Are More Equal Than Others. Crit Care Med 2019; 46:818-819. [PMID: 29652709 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000003042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Garrett W Britton
- Department of Medicine, Critical Care Section, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD Department of Medicine, Critical Care Section, Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, GA
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Biocompatible coupling of therapeutic fusion proteins to human erythrocytes. Blood Adv 2019; 2:165-176. [PMID: 29365311 DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2017011734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2017] [Accepted: 12/29/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Carriage of drugs by red blood cells (RBCs) modulates pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and immunogenicity. However, optimal targets for attaching therapeutics to human RBCs and adverse effects have not been studied. We engineered nonhuman-primate single-chain antibody fragments (scFvs) directed to human RBCs and fused scFvs with human thrombomodulin (hTM) as a representative biotherapeutic cargo (hTM-scFv). Binding fusions to RBCs on band 3/glycophorin A (GPA; Wright b [Wrb] epitope) and RhCE (Rh17/Hr0 epitope) similarly endowed RBCs with hTM activity, but differed in their effects on RBC physiology. scFv and hTM-scFv targeted to band 3/GPA increased membrane rigidity and sensitized RBCs to hemolysis induced by mechanical stress, while reducing sensitivity to hypo-osmotic hemolysis. Similar properties were seen for other ligands bound to GPA and band 3 on human and murine RBCs. In contrast, binding of scFv or hTM-scFv to RhCE did not alter deformability or sensitivity to mechanical and osmotic stress at similar copy numbers bound per RBCs. Contrasting responses were also seen for immunoglobulin G antibodies against band 3, GPA, and RhCE. RBC-bound hTM-scFv generated activated protein C (APC) in the presence of thrombin, but RhCE-targeted hTM-scFv demonstrated greater APC generation per bound copy. Both Wrb- and RhCE-targeted fusion proteins inhibited fibrin deposition induced by tumor necrosis factor-α in an endothelialized microfluidic model using human whole blood. RhCE-bound hTM-scFv more effectively reduced platelet and leukocyte adhesion, whereas anti-Wrb scFv appeared to promote platelet adhesion. These data provide a translational framework for the development of engineered affinity ligands to safely couple therapeutics to human RBCs.
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Iba T, Ogura H. Role of extracellular vesicles in the development of sepsis-induced coagulopathy. J Intensive Care 2018; 6:68. [PMID: 30377532 PMCID: PMC6194680 DOI: 10.1186/s40560-018-0340-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2018] [Accepted: 10/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Background The advances of research on extracellular vesicles (EVs) are of particular interest to the clinicians as well as the researchers who are studying coagulation disorder in sepsis. Here, we intend to update the latest knowledge and currently unsolved problems that should be addressed. Main body Secreted membrane-enclosed vesicles including apoptotic bodies, exosomes, ectosomes, microvesicles, and microparticles are generically called EVs. Though the basic structure of these vesicles is the same, i.e., originating from the plasma membrane, their characteristics differ significantly depending on their surface structures and interior components. Numerous studies have shown elevated levels of circulating EVs that exhibit proinflammatory and procoagulant properties during sepsis. These EVs are known to play important roles in the development of coagulation disorder and organ dysfunction in sepsis. Coagulation disorder in sepsis is characterized by activated coagulation, disrupted anticoagulant systems, and imbalanced fibrinolytic systems. These processes collaborate with one another and contribute to the development of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), with devastating consequences. As part of this pathogenesis, the membrane-exposed tissue factor, phosphatidylserine and bioactive substances contained within the vesicles, such as histones, nucleosomes, and high-mobility group box 1, contribute to the development of DIC. EVs not only upregulate the procoagulant systems by themselves, but they also disseminate prothrombotic activities by transferring their procoagulant properties to distant target cells. Though the basic concept behind the role of procoagulant properties, EVs in the development of sepsis-induced coagulopathy has started to be unveiled, knowledge of the actual status is far from satisfactory, mainly because of the lack of standardized assay procedures. Recent advances and current problems that remain to be resolved are introduced in this review. Conclusion The recent studies succeeded to elucidate the important roles of EVs in the progress of coagulation disorder in sepsis. However, further harmonization in terminology, methodology, and evaluation methods is required for future studies.
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- Toshiaki Iba
- 1Department of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8421 Japan
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- 2Department of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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INTRODUCTION Neutrophils extracellular traps (NETs) have recently emerged as a new potential link between inflammation, immunity, and thrombosis and could play a key role in septic shock-induced disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) pathogenesis. The objective of our study was to investigate a potential link between NETosis and septic shock-induced DIC. METHODS Twenty patients with septic shock (10 without and 10 with DIC according to JAAM 2006 score) were prospectively included in our study. Vascular cell activation was assessed by microparticle (MP) measurement. NETosis was investigated at days 1, 3, and 7 using two different approaches: probing and measurement of neutrophil DNA decompaction by neutrophil-side fluorescence light (NEUT-SFL) as recorded by an automated blood cell cytometer and the assessment of nucleosomes and NETs (DNA-bound myeloperoxidase, DNA-MPO). RESULTS Endothelial-derived CD105-MPs, leucocyte-derived CD11a-MPs/leucocyte, and neutrophil-derived CD66b-MPs/neutrophil count ratios significantly increased in DIC compared with non-DIC patients, indicating on-going cell activation (P <0.05). NEUT-SFL, indicating DNA decompaction, was significantly higher in DIC patients. Circulating nucleosomes and DNA-MPO were increased in DIC patients (P <0.05). There were significant correlations between: nucleosomes and NETs (r = 0.397, P = 0.004), NEUT-SFL and nucleosomes (r = 0.243, P = 0.032), NEUT-SFL and DNA-MPO (r = 0.266, P = 0.024). CONCLUSION NEUT-SFL, NETs, and elevated nucleosome concentrations were all correlated to DIC (P <0.05). We have shown that NETosis is significantly correlated to septic shock-induced DIC.
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Helms J, Clere-Jehl R, Bianchini E, Le Borgne P, Burban M, Zobairi F, Diehl JL, Grunebaum L, Toti F, Meziani F, Borgel D. Thrombomodulin favors leukocyte microvesicle fibrinolytic activity, reduces NETosis and prevents septic shock-induced coagulopathy in rats. Ann Intensive Care 2017; 7:118. [PMID: 29222696 PMCID: PMC5722785 DOI: 10.1186/s13613-017-0340-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2017] [Accepted: 11/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Septic shock-induced disseminated intravascular coagulation is responsible for increased occurrence of multiple organ dysfunction and mortality. Immunothrombosis-induced coagulopathy may contribute to hypercoagulability. We aimed at determining whether recombinant human thrombomodulin (rhTM) could control exaggerated immunothrombosis by studying procoagulant responses, fibrinolysis activity borne by microvesicles (MVs) and NETosis in septic shock. METHODS In a septic shock model after a cecal ligation and puncture-induced peritonitis (H0), rats were treated with rhTM or a placebo at H18, resuscitated and monitored during 4 h. At H22, blood was sampled to perform coagulation tests, to characterize MVs and to detect neutrophils extracellular traps (NETs). Lungs were stained with hematoxylin-eosin for inflammatory injury assessment. RESULTS Coagulopathy was attenuated in rhTM-treated septic rats compared to placebo-treated rats, as attested by a significant decrease in procoagulant annexin A5+-MVs and plasma procoagulant activity of phospholipids and by a significant increase in antithrombin levels (84 ± 8 vs. 64 ± 6%, p < 0.05), platelet count (582 ± 157 vs. 319 ± 91 × 109/L, p < 0.05) and fibrinolysis activity borne by MVs (2.9 ± 0.26 vs. 0.48 ± 0.29 U/mL urokinase, p < 0.05). Lung histological injury score showed significantly less leukocyte infiltration. Decreased procoagulant activity and lung injury were concomitant with decreased leukocyte activation as attested by plasma leukocyte-derived MVs and NETosis reduction after rhTM treatment (neutrophil elastase/DNA: 93 ± 33 vs. 227 ± 48 and citrullinated histones H3/DNA: 96 ± 16 vs. 242 ± 180, mOD for 109 neutrophils/L, p < 0.05). CONCLUSION Thrombomodulin limits procoagulant responses and NETosis and at least partly restores hemostasis control during immunothrombosis. Neutrophils might thus stand as a promising therapeutic target in septic shock-induced coagulopathy.
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- Julie Helms
- UMR INSERM 1176-Universite Paris Sud, Hôpital Bicêtre, 78 rue du Général Leclerc, 94270 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
- Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, 20 Rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France
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- Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Faculté de Médecine, Hôpitaux universitaires de Strasbourg, Service de Réanimation, Nouvel Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg, France
- INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research), UMR 1260, Regenerative Nanomedicine (RNM), FMTS, Strasbourg, France
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- UMR INSERM 1176-Universite Paris Sud, Hôpital Bicêtre, 78 rue du Général Leclerc, 94270 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- Service d’Accueil des Urgences, Hôpital de Hautepierre, CHU de Strasbourg, 1 Avenue de Molière, 67200 Strasbourg, France
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- INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research), UMR 1260, Regenerative Nanomedicine (RNM), FMTS, Strasbourg, France
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- INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research), UMR 1260, Regenerative Nanomedicine (RNM), FMTS, Strasbourg, France
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- Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, 20 Rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire d’hématologie et hémostase, Hôpital de Hautepierre, CHU de Strasbourg, 1 Avenue de Molière, 67200 Strasbourg, France
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- INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research), UMR 1260, Regenerative Nanomedicine (RNM), FMTS, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Faculté de Médecine, Hôpitaux universitaires de Strasbourg, Service de Réanimation, Nouvel Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg, France
- INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research), UMR 1260, Regenerative Nanomedicine (RNM), FMTS, Strasbourg, France
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- UMR INSERM 1176-Universite Paris Sud, Hôpital Bicêtre, 78 rue du Général Leclerc, 94270 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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ICAM-1-targeted thrombomodulin mitigates tissue factor-driven inflammatory thrombosis in a human endothelialized microfluidic model. Blood Adv 2017; 1:1452-1465. [PMID: 29296786 DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2017007229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2017] [Accepted: 07/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Diverse human illnesses are characterized by loss or inactivation of endothelial thrombomodulin (TM), predisposing to microvascular inflammation, activation of coagulation, and tissue ischemia. Single-chain antibody fragment (scFv)/TM) fusion proteins, previously protective against end-organ injury in murine models of inflammation, are attractive candidates to treat inflammatory thrombosis. However, animal models have inherent differences in TM and coagulation biology, are limited in their ability to resolve and control endothelial biology, and do not allow in-depth testing of "humanized" scFv/TM fusion proteins, which are necessary for translation to the clinical domain. To address these challenges, we developed a human whole-blood, microfluidic model of inflammatory, tissue factor (TF)-driven coagulation that features a multichannel format for head-to-head comparison of therapeutic approaches. In this model, fibrin deposition, leukocyte adhesion, and platelet adhesion and aggregation showed a dose-dependent response to tumor necrosis factor-α activation and could be quantified via real-time microscopy. We used this model to compare hTM/R6.5, a humanized, intracellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1)-targeted scFv/TM biotherapeutic, to untargeted antithrombotic agents, including soluble human TM (shTM), anti-TF antibodies, and hirudin. The targeted hTM/R6.5 more effectively inhibited TF-driven coagulation in a protein C (PC)-dependent manner and demonstrated synergy with supplemental PC. These results support the translational prospects of ICAM-targeted scFv/TM and illustrate the utility of the microfluidic system as a platform to study humanized therapeutics at the interface of endothelium and whole blood under flow.
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Kell DB, Pretorius E. To What Extent Are the Terminal Stages of Sepsis, Septic Shock, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome Actually Driven by a Prion/Amyloid Form of Fibrin? Semin Thromb Hemost 2017; 44:224-238. [PMID: 28778104 PMCID: PMC6193370 DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1604108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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A well-established development of increasing disease severity leads from sepsis through systemic inflammatory response syndrome, septic shock, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, and cellular and organismal death. Less commonly discussed are the equally well-established coagulopathies that accompany this. We argue that a lipopolysaccharide-initiated (often disseminated intravascular) coagulation is accompanied by a proteolysis of fibrinogen such that formed fibrin is both inflammatory and resistant to fibrinolysis. In particular, we argue that the form of fibrin generated is amyloid in nature because much of its normal α-helical content is transformed to β-sheets, as occurs with other proteins in established amyloidogenic and prion diseases. We hypothesize that these processes of amyloidogenic clotting and the attendant coagulopathies play a role in the passage along the aforementioned pathways to organismal death, and that their inhibition would be of significant therapeutic value, a claim for which there is considerable emerging evidence.
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- Douglas B Kell
- School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.,Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.,Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa
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Should all patients with sepsis receive anticoagulation? Yes. Intensive Care Med 2017; 43:452-454. [PMID: 28194512 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-016-4621-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2016] [Accepted: 11/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Proteins behaving badly. Substoichiometric molecular control and amplification of the initiation and nature of amyloid fibril formation: lessons from and for blood clotting. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 123:16-41. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2016.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2016] [Revised: 08/14/2016] [Accepted: 08/19/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Severe sepsis is almost invariably associated with systemic activation of coagulation. There is ample evidence that demonstrates a wide-ranging cross-talk between hemostasis and inflammation, which is probably implicated in the pathogenesis of organ dysfunction in patients with sepsis. Inflammation not only leads to initiation and propagation of coagulation activity, but coagulation also markedly influences inflammation. Molecular mechanisms that play a role in inflammation-induced effects on coagulation have been recognized in much detail. Pro-inflammatory cells and cyto- and chemokines can activate the coagulation system and downregulate crucial physiological anticoagulant mechanisms. Initiation of coagulation activation and consequent thrombin generation is caused by expression of tissue factor on activated monocytes and endothelial cells and is ineffectually offset by tissue factor pathway inhibitor. At the same time, endothelial-associated anticoagulant pathways, in particular the protein C system, is impaired by pro-inflammatory cytokines. Also, fibrin removal is severely obstructed by inactivation of the endogenous fibrinolytic system, mainly as a result of upregulation of its principal inhibitor, plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1). Increased fibrin generation and impaired break down lead to deposition of (micro)vascular clots, which may contribute to tissue ischemia and ensuing organ dysfunction. The foundation of the management of coagulation in sepsis is the explicit and thorough treatment of the underlying disorder by antibiotic treatment and source control measures. Adjunctive strategies focused at the impairment of coagulation, including anticoagulants and restoration of physiological anticoagulant mechanisms, may supposedly be indicated and have been found advantageous in experimental and initial clinical trials.
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Carnemolla R, Villa CH, Greineder CF, Zaitsev S, Patel KR, Kowalska MA, Atochin DN, Cines DB, Siegel DL, Esmon CT, Muzykantov VR. Targeting thrombomodulin to circulating red blood cells augments its protective effects in models of endotoxemia and ischemia-reperfusion injury. FASEB J 2016; 31:761-770. [PMID: 27836986 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201600912r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Endothelial thrombomodulin (TM) regulates coagulation and inflammation via several mechanisms, including production of activated protein C (APC). Recombinant APC and soluble fragments of TM (sTM) have been tested in settings associated with insufficiency of the endogenous TM/APC pathway, such as sepsis. We previously designed a fusion protein of TM [single-chain variable fragment antibody (scFv)/TM] targeted to red blood cells (RBCs) to improve pharmacokinetics and antithrombotic effects without increasing bleeding. Here, scFv/TM was studied in mouse models of systemic inflammation and ischemia-reperfusion injury. Injected concomitantly with or before endotoxin, scFv/TM provided more potent protection against liver injury and release of pathological mediators than sTM, showing similar efficacy at up to 50-fold lower doses. scFv/TM provided protection when injected after endotoxin, whereas sTM did not, and augmented APC production by thrombin ∼50-fold more than sTM. However, scFv/TM injected after endotoxin did not reduce thrombin/antithrombin complexes; nor did antibodies that block APC anticoagulant activity suppress the prophylactic anti-inflammatory effect of scFv/TM. Therefore, similar to endogenous TM, RBC-anchored scFv/TM activates several protective pathways. Finally, scFv/TM was more effective at reducing cerebral infarct volume and alleviated neurological deficits than sTM after cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury. These results indicate that RBC-targeted scFv/TM exerts multifaceted cytoprotective effects and may find utility in systemic and focal inflammatory and ischemic disorders.-Carnemolla, R., Villa, C. H., Greineder, C. F., Zaitseva, S., Patel, K. R., Kowalska, M. A., Atochin, D. N., Cines, D. B., Siegel, D. L., Esmon, C. T., Muzykantov, V. R. Targeting thrombomodulin to circulating red blood cells augments its protective effects in models of endotoxemia and ischemia-reperfusion injury.
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- Ronald Carnemolla
- Department of Pharmacology, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA.,Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA.,Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA.,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA.,Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA.,Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA.,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Institute of Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland
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- Division of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA
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- Department of Pathology, Coagulation Biology Laboratory, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; and.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Coagulation Biology Laboratory, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA; .,Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA
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Iba T, Gando S, Saitoh D, Ikeda T, Anan H, Oda S, Kitamura N, Mori S, Kotani J, Kuroda Y. Efficacy and Bleeding Risk of Antithrombin Supplementation in Patients With Septic Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation: A Third Survey. Clin Appl Thromb Hemost 2016; 23:422-428. [PMID: 27161759 DOI: 10.1177/1076029616648405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Although recent studies have reported the efficacy of antithrombin (AT) supplementation for sepsis-associated disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), the factors that influence AT's effect have not been sufficiently studied. The purpose of this survey was to identify factors that modulate the effects and the adverse effects of AT. METHODS We performed a multi-institutional survey. The data from 159 patients with septic DIC with AT ≤70% and who had undergone AT supplementation were analyzed. The patients' demographic characteristics, including the infection site, baseline sepsis-related organ failure assessment (SOFA) score, baseline DIC score, and baseline AT activity, were analyzed in relation to the 28-day mortality. Bleeding-related adverse events were also examined. RESULTS Overall, 116 patients survived and 43 did not (28-day mortality: 27.0%). A logistic regression analysis revealed that the baseline SOFA score (odds ratio [OR]: 0.816, P = .001), coadministration of recombinant thrombomodulin (rTM; OR: 3.989, P = .006), and respiratory tract infection (OR: 0.129, P = .000) were significantly associated with the survival. Survivors exhibited a higher peak AT activity than nonsurvivors (85.1% vs 65.0%, P = .027). Bleeding events were observed in 4.13% (major bleeding: 1.65%) of the patients, and the coadministration of rTM did not increase the risk of bleeding (with rTM: 4.11% vs without rTM: 4.17%). Heparin was concomitantly used in 22 (18.2%) cases, and its use nonsignificantly increased the bleeding risk (with heparins: 9.09% vs without heparins: 3.03%; P = .224). CONCLUSION The coadministration of rTM may improve survival without increasing the risk of bleeding in patients with sepsis-associated DIC treated with AT.
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- Toshiaki Iba
- 1 Department of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Bunkyō, Japan
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- 2 Division of Acute and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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- 3 Division of Traumatology, National Defense Medical College Research Institute, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan
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- 4 Division of Critical Care Medicine, Tokyo Medical University Hachioji Medical Center, Hachioji, Japan
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- 5 Emergency Medical Center, Fujisawa City Hospital, Fujisawa, Japan
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- 6 Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
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- 7 Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Kimitsu Chuo Hospital, Kimitsu, Japan
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- 8 Emergency Medical Center, Chuno Kosei Hospital, Seki, Japan
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- 9 Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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- 10 Department of Emergency, Disaster and Critical Care Medicine, University of Kagawa, Takamatsu, Japan
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Kell DB, Kenny LC. A Dormant Microbial Component in the Development of Preeclampsia. Front Med (Lausanne) 2016; 3:60. [PMID: 27965958 PMCID: PMC5126693 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2016.00060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2016] [Accepted: 11/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Preeclampsia (PE) is a complex, multisystem disorder that remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in pregnancy. Four main classes of dysregulation accompany PE and are widely considered to contribute to its severity. These are abnormal trophoblast invasion of the placenta, anti-angiogenic responses, oxidative stress, and inflammation. What is lacking, however, is an explanation of how these themselves are caused. We here develop the unifying idea, and the considerable evidence for it, that the originating cause of PE (and of the four classes of dysregulation) is, in fact, microbial infection, that most such microbes are dormant and hence resist detection by conventional (replication-dependent) microbiology, and that by occasional resuscitation and growth it is they that are responsible for all the observable sequelae, including the continuing, chronic inflammation. In particular, bacterial products such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS), also known as endotoxin, are well known as highly inflammagenic and stimulate an innate (and possibly trained) immune response that exacerbates the inflammation further. The known need of microbes for free iron can explain the iron dysregulation that accompanies PE. We describe the main routes of infection (gut, oral, and urinary tract infection) and the regularly observed presence of microbes in placental and other tissues in PE. Every known proteomic biomarker of "preeclampsia" that we assessed has, in fact, also been shown to be raised in response to infection. An infectious component to PE fulfills the Bradford Hill criteria for ascribing a disease to an environmental cause and suggests a number of treatments, some of which have, in fact, been shown to be successful. PE was classically referred to as endotoxemia or toxemia of pregnancy, and it is ironic that it seems that LPS and other microbial endotoxins really are involved. Overall, the recognition of an infectious component in the etiology of PE mirrors that for ulcers and other diseases that were previously considered to lack one.
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Affiliation(s)
- Douglas B. Kell
- School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- *Correspondence: Douglas B. Kell,
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- The Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT), University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Ito T, Kakihana Y, Maruyama I. Thrombomodulin as an intravascular safeguard against inflammatory and thrombotic diseases. Expert Opin Ther Targets 2015; 20:151-8. [PMID: 26558419 DOI: 10.1517/14728222.2016.1086750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Thrombomodulin is a transmembrane protein expressed on the surface of endothelial cells. It plays an important role in regulating inflammation as well as coagulation within blood vessels. Recently, a recombinant form of an extracellular fragment of thrombomodulin (rTM) has been developed and is expected to be useful for patients suffering from inflammatory and thrombotic diseases. AREAS COVERED We initially focus on the physiological and biochemical features of thrombomodulin, including its distribution, structure and function. We then discuss potential therapeutic applications of rTM. EXPERT OPINION Thrombomodulin exerts anticoagulant and anti-inflammatory effects, in part through activated protein C (APC)-dependent mechanisms. Although recombinant human APC (rhAPC) failed to improve the survival of patients with septic shock and has now been withdrawn from the market, rTM may have some advantages over rhAPC. First, rTM may have less risk of bleeding complications than rhAPC, because rTM needs thrombin to act as an anticoagulant and thus its anticoagulant power can be automatically adjusted by the amount of existing thrombin. Second, the APC-independent actions of rTM might confer benefits, including the suppression of complements, endotoxin (representative pathogen-associated molecular pattern) and high-mobility group box 1 protein (prototypical damage-associated molecular pattern) through the lectin-like domain of rTM.
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- Takashi Ito
- a Kagoshima University , Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine , Kagoshima , Japan.,b Kagoshima University , Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Department of Systems Biology in Thromboregulation , Kagoshima , Japan
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- a Kagoshima University , Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine , Kagoshima , Japan
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- b Kagoshima University , Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Department of Systems Biology in Thromboregulation , Kagoshima , Japan
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