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Breen KA, Grimwade D, Hunt BJ. The pathogenesis and management of the coagulopathy of acute promyelocytic leukaemia. Br J Haematol 2011; 156:24-36. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2011.08922.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Liu Y, Wang Z, Jiang M, Dai L, Zhang W, Wu D, Ruan C. The expression of annexin II and its role in the fibrinolytic activity in acute promyelocytic leukemia. Leuk Res 2011; 35:879-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.leukres.2010.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2010] [Revised: 10/25/2010] [Accepted: 11/13/2010] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Despite the development of highly effective treatment strategies for acute promyelocytic leukaemia around 10% of patients die in the presentation period as a consequence of the associated bleeding diathesis. The cause of the coagulopathy is complex resulting from a combination of tissue factor (TF) and cancer procoagulant (CP) induced disseminated intravascular coagulation, exaggerated fibrinolysis due predominantly to enhanced expression of annexin II on APL blast cell membranes and blast cell production of cytokines. All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) has revolutionised the treatment of APL. When combined with chemotherapy long term survival rates of up to 80% can be achieved. Commencement of ATRA induces APL blast cell differentiation and is associated with a rapid resolution of the bleeding tendency through a combination of effects which include up regulation of thrombomodulin and down regulation of TF and CP production and cell surface expression of annexin II.
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- Carolina Arbuthnot
- Department of Haematology, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
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Dally N, Hoffman R, Haddad N, Sarig G, Rowe JM, Brenner B. Predictive factors of bleeding and thrombosis during induction therapy in acute promyelocytic leukemia—a single center experience in 34 patients. Thromb Res 2005; 116:109-14. [PMID: 15907524 DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2004.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2004] [Revised: 11/10/2004] [Accepted: 11/10/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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In this retrospective study, the hemorrhagic and thrombotic events are reported at presentation and during induction in 34 consecutive acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) patients treated in a single referral center. The most consistent hemostatic abnormality was decreased fibrinogen level (<150 mg/dL) found in 21 patients (61%), partial thromboplastin time (PTT) was normal almost in all patients. A mildly prolonged prothrombin time (PT) was observed in 14 patients (44%). Median platelet count was 30.10(9)/L (range 3-191.10(9)/L). Life-threatening bleeding manifestations occurred in 10 patients (29%). By multivariate analysis, severe bleeding complications did not correlate with hemostatic parameters but did correlate with white cell count at presentation. Four patients (12%) had severe thrombotic events, two cerebral sagital sinus thrombosis, one pulmonary embolism, and one subclavian vein thrombosis. Two other patients had pseudotumor cerebri. Three out of six patients with thrombotic events were found to have thrombophilia. These results may suggest an association between thrombophilia and thrombosis in APL patients. Two patients suffered from combined severe bleeding and thrombosis. Hemostatic parameters are not helpful in predicting neither hemorrhage nor thrombosis.
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- Najib Dally
- Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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Perez-Zincer F, Juturi JV, Hsi ED, Hoeltge GA, Rybicki LA, Kalaycio ME. A pulmonary syndrome in patients with acute myelomonocytic leukemia and inversion of chromosome 16. Leuk Lymphoma 2003; 44:103-9. [PMID: 12691148 DOI: 10.3109/10428190309178819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Different subtypes of acute myelogenous leukemia have distinct clinical presentations and courses. The specific clinical and molecular aspects of these leukemias have helped modify and create specific strategies for their management. We observed an increased incidence of pulmonary complications in patients with acute myelomonocytic leukemias (AMML) with inversion of chromosome 16 [inv(16)] irrespective of the presence of hyperleukocytosis. We reviewed patient records available over a period of 12 years at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation of patients with AMML with inv(16) and compared the incidence of pulmonary complications to a matched control group of patients with AMML but without inv(16). We found an increased incidence of pulmonary complications in the AMML with inv(16)group when compared to the control group. Two of these patients demonstrated brochiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (BOOP) on lung biopsy. No specific etiology for the pulmonary complications was identified. These findings represent the first observation of an association between WHO-AMML with inv(16) [FAB-AML M4 with inv(16)] with a pulmonary syndrome at presentation. BOOP should be suspected in these cases. A larger prospective study to evaluate this association is warranted.
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- Fernando Perez-Zincer
- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (R-35), 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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Menell JS, Cesarman GM, Jacovina AT, McLaughlin MA, Lev EA, Hajjar KA. Annexin II and bleeding in acute promyelocytic leukemia. N Engl J Med 1999; 340:994-1004. [PMID: 10099141 DOI: 10.1056/nejm199904013401303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 268] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is associated with a hemorrhagic disorder of unknown cause that responds to treatment with all-trans-retinoic acid. METHODS We studied a newly described receptor for fibrinolytic proteins, annexin II, in cells from patients with APL or other leukemias. We examined initial rates of in vitro generation of plasmin by tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) in the presence of APL cells that did or did not have the characteristic translocation of APL, t(15;17). We also determined the effect of all-trans-retinoic acid on the expression of annexin II and the generation of cell-surface plasmin. RESULTS The expression of annexin II, as detected by a fluorescein-tagged antibody, was greater on leukemic cells from patients with APL than on other types of leukemic cells (mean fluorescence intensity, 6.9 and 2.9, respectively; P<0.01). The t(15;17)-positive APL cells stimulated the generation of cell-surface, t-PA-dependent plasmin twice as efficiently as the t(15;17)-negative cells. This increase in plasmin was blocked by an anti-annexin II antibody and was induced by transfection of t(15;17)-negative cells with annexin II complementary DNA. The t(15;17)-positive APL cells contained abundant messenger RNA for annexin II, which disappeared through a transcriptional mechanism after treatment with all-trans-retinoic acid. CONCLUSIONS Abnormally high levels of expression of annexin II on APL cells increase the production of plasmin, a fibrinolytic protein. Overexpression of annexin II may be a mechanism for the hemorrhagic complications of APL.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Annexin A2/drug effects
- Annexin A2/genetics
- Annexin A2/immunology
- Annexin A2/metabolism
- Antibodies/physiology
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Female
- Fibrinolysin/biosynthesis
- Fibrinolysis/drug effects
- Fibrinolysis/immunology
- Hemorrhagic Disorders/etiology
- Humans
- Leukemia/metabolism
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/complications
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/genetics
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/metabolism
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/physiopathology
- Male
- Middle Aged
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Transcription, Genetic/drug effects
- Transfection
- Translocation, Genetic
- Tretinoin/pharmacology
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- J S Menell
- Department of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
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Higuchi T, Shimizu T, Mori H, Niikura H, Omine M. Coagulation patterns of disseminated intravascular coagulation in acute promyelocytic leukemia. Hematol Oncol 1997; 15:209-17. [PMID: 9722892 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1069(199711)15:4<209::aid-hon615>3.0.co;2-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Coagulation patterns of 19 newly-diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) patients with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) at presentation were studied. Seventeen patients had hemorrhagic complications, of which four were fatal. Fatal hemorrhages were related with lower fibrinogen level and lower platelet count. DIC of the APL patients without infection was characterized by low fibrinogen and normal antithrombin III (ATIII) level. Thrombin-ATIII complex level was elevated in all patients examined. Patients with infection had higher fibrinogen levels than those without infection and some patients had reduced ATIII level. Ten remission inductions were tried with multidrug chemotherapy and seven with all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA). Complete remission was achieved in seven of ten inductions with chemotherapy and in all seven inductions with ATRA. Two patients treated with chemotherapy had fatal hemorrhage after starting therapy but none treated with ATRA.
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- T Higuchi
- Division of Hematology, Internal Medicine, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Yokohama, Japan
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DeLoughery TG, Goodnight SH. Acute promyelocytic leukaemia in the all trans retinoic acid era. Med Oncol 1996; 13:233-40. [PMID: 9152974 DOI: 10.1007/bf02990936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Bleeding diathesis is a common complication of acute promyelocyctic leukaemia (APL). Multiple haemostatic defects are found in most patients with APL, which often worsen following cytoreductive chemotherapy. Besides thrombocytopenia, most patients develop disseminated intravascular coagulation, systemic fibrinolysis or both. A major aim in treating haemostatic defects of APL is to prevent death or disability from bleeding until chemotherapy clears the malignant promyelocytes from the blood and bone marrow. The therapeutic options are discussed in this review and practical guidelines for treatment are outlined.
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del Zoppo GJ, Mori E. Hematologic Causes of Intracerebral Hemorrhage and Their Treatment. Neurosurg Clin N Am 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s1042-3680(18)30653-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Sunder-Plassmann G, Speiser W, Korninger C, Stain M, Bettelheim P, Pabinger-Fasching I, Lechner K. Disseminated intravascular coagulation and decrease in fibrinogen levels induced by vincristine/prednisolone therapy of lymphoid blast crisis of chronic myeloid leukemia. Ann Hematol 1991; 62:169-73. [PMID: 2049463 DOI: 10.1007/bf01703143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Therapy with vincristine (2 mg i.v. weekly) and prednisolone (100 mg p.o. daily) caused a decrease in fibrinogen levels in nine patients treated for lymphoid blast crisis LBC) of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). During the first days of treatment disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), evidence by a positive ethanol gelation test, markedly increased thrombin-antithrombin III complex and fibrin-split product D-dimer levels, and a rapid fall in fibrinogen levels was observed in two patients. The induction of DIC in these two patients caused profuse bleeding in one and necessitated substitution therapy with fibrinogen and platelet concentrates. The remaining seven patients revealed no signs of DIC; nevertheless, four of them showed a moderate increase in D-dimer levels after initiation of therapy. In these patients a well-known side effect of long-term steroid therapy, namely a decrease of fibrinogen levels, was observed within the first week of treatment. Fibrinogen levels did not fall below 150 mg/dl and increased after dose reduction from 100 mg/day to 50 mg/day. We conclude from our results that two types of disturbances in fibrinogen metabolism can be observed during vincristine/prednisolone therapy of LBC of CML: (a) a decrease of fibrinogen levels due to a steroid-mediated impairment of liver synthesis, and (b) a rapid fall in fibrinogen levels in the course of DIC, most likely induced by the release of procoagulants from deteriorating blast cells, leading to severe bleeding in selected cases.
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Speiser W, Pabinger-Fasching I, Kyrle PA, Kapiotis S, Kottas-Heldenberg A, Bettelheim P, Lechner K. Hemostatic and fibrinolytic parameters in patients with acute myeloid leukemia: activation of blood coagulation, fibrinolysis and unspecific proteolysis. BLUT 1990; 61:298-302. [PMID: 2271776 DOI: 10.1007/bf01732881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Blood coagulation, fibrinolytic and unspecific proteolytic parameters were investigated in 34 patients with acute myeloid leukemia. An increased activity of the coagulation system, documented by elevated thrombin-antithrombin III-complex (TAT) plasma levels, was found in 91% of the patients; 50% had increased elastase plasma levels. Hyperfibrinolysis, as shown by elevated fibrin split-product D-Dimer plasma levels, was detected in 91% of AML patients. Activation of these enzyme systems was not associated with relevant defects in blood coagulation or fibrinolysis in the majority of the patients investigated. In selected cases of promyelocytic M3 and monoblastic M5 leukemia, however, hypofibrinogenemia and alpha 2-plasmininhibitor deficiency was found, most likely due to depletion of these proteins in the course of disseminated intravascular coagulation and secondary hyperfibrinolysis. Significant correlations were calculated between TAT and fibrinogen (r = -0.57, P less than 0.005), TAT and D-Dimer (r = 0.89, P less than 0.0005), and D-Dimer and alpha 2-plasmininhibitor (r = -0.77, P less than 0.0005) levels. Indications of a pathogenetic importance of primary hyperfibrinolysis or unspecific proteolysis for hypofibrinogenemia and alpha 2-PI deficiency were not found.
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- W Speiser
- First Department of Medicine, University of Vienna, Austria
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Little information is available on the prevalence and etiology of the coagulopathy present in some children with acute leukemia at disease presentation. We studied 102 children with newly diagnosed acute leukemia (50 retrospective: Group A; and 52 prospective: Group B) with prothrombin time (PT), partial thromboplastin time (PTT), thrombin time (TT), fibrinogen (FIB), and fibrin degradation products (FDP). All patients in Group B also had assessment of thrombin activation by measurement of the crosslinked fibrin fragment, D-dimer, and of primary fibrinolysis with the B beta 1-42 peptide. Additionally, ten patients from Group B had Factors II, V, VII, and X measured, and eight of these patients had measurement of tissue factor from sonicated bone marrow cells. Thirty-two percent of Group A and 40% of Group B had totally normal coagulation studies, whereas 20% of Group A and 10% of Group B had a severe coagulopathy on disease presentation. A high percentage of both groups had elevated PT (Group A, 52%; Group B, 27%) and increased FDP (Group A, 39%; Group B, 25%). In Group B, 38% of the patients had a positive D-dimer, whereas only 4% of this prospective group had an elevated B beta 1-42 peptide (P less than 0.00001). Nine of ten patients with a positive D-dimer had low levels of one or more of the extrinsic pathway factors. Three of four patients with the highest tissue factor levels were of monocytoid leukemia cell type. These data indicate that the coagulopathy associated with acute leukemia of childhood is usually mediated by thrombin activation.
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- T C Abshire
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver
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Heckel JL, Sandgren EP, Degen JL, Palmiter RD, Brinster RL. Neonatal bleeding in transgenic mice expressing urokinase-type plasminogen activator. Cell 1990; 62:447-56. [PMID: 1696178 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(90)90010-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Spontaneous intestinal and intra-abdominal bleeding was observed in a high percentage of newborn transgenic mice carrying the murine urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) gene linked to the albumin enhancer/promoter. These hemorrhagic events were directly related to transgene expression in the liver and the development of high plasma uPA levels. Two lines were established from surviving founder mice that displayed multigenerational transmission of the bleeding phenotype. Fatal hemorrhaging developed between 3 and 84 hr after birth in about half of the transgenic offspring of these lines; transgenic pups that did not bleed nevertheless passed the phenotype to their young. The phenotypic variability could not be explained by differences in transgene expression. All transgenic neonates were severely hypofibrinogenemic and displayed loss of clotting function that extended beyond the risk period for bleeding. These mice provide a means of studying the pathophysiology of plasminogen hyperactivation and evaluating therapeutic protocols designed to prevent bleeding.
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- J L Heckel
- Children's Hospital Research Foundation, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio 45229
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Rössle A, Ostermann H. What's new in the causes of hemorrhage in acute myelogenous leukemia? Pathol Res Pract 1990; 186:415-20. [PMID: 2198555 DOI: 10.1016/s0344-0338(11)80307-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Hemorrhages in AML are still a major problem, although not the most important and different factors are involved in its genesis. The causes that predispose an AML patient to bleed will be reviewed, the hypotheses concerning the coagulation disorder specially found in the FAB M3 type will be discussed and the increasingly recognized role of plasminogen activators and enzymes released from blasts will be emphasized.
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- A Rössle
- Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Münster, FRG
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Takahashi H, Tatewaki W, Wada K, Hanano M, Shibata A. Thrombin vs. plasmin generation in disseminated intravascular coagulation associated with various underlying disorders. Am J Hematol 1990; 33:90-5. [PMID: 1689102 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.2830330204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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In order to assess the thrombin and plasmin generation in vivo in disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), plasma levels of thrombin-antithrombin III (ATIII) complex (TAT) and plasmin-alpha 2-antiplasmin (a2AP) complex (PAP) were measured together with standard coagulation and fibrinolytic parameters in 80 patients with DIC. Both TAT and PAP were markedly elevated in patients with DIC. When plotted by the underlying disease categories, differences in the magnitude of the elevations of these complexes were recognized among groups. Patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) had the highest PAP, the lowest TAT/PAP ratio, low a2AP, and low fibrinogen, indicating that the most excessive fibrinolysis can occur in APL. Similar profiles, although less marked, were observed in patients with other leukemias and vascular diseases. Patients with sepsis showed the highest TAT/PAP ratio and the lowest PAP with no decrease in a2AP or fibrinogen, demonstrating a relatively impaired fibrinolysis. Patients with cancer had a relatively high TAT and high TAT/PAP ratio. In addition, both TAT and PAP were markedly elevated in patients with shock. From these, it was suggested that, although laboratory manifestations in DIC are extremely variable from patient to patient, underlying disorders are, at least in part, responsible for the observed variations. Recognition of this variable activation of coagulation and fibrinolysis would be helpful for the proper management of patients with DIC.
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- H Takahashi
- First Department of Internal Medicine, Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan
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