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Volod O, Wegner J. Viscoelastic Testing in the Management of Adult Patients on Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices with Focus on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. Semin Thromb Hemost 2022; 48:814-827. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1756303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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AbstractThromboembolic and hemorrhagic complications continue to remain frequent complications that significantly impact the morbidity and mortality of patients implanted with mechanical circulatory support devices (MCSDs). The severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in a number of COVID-19 patients being supported by MCSDs, specifically extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), which in turn has created a crucial need for rapid assessment of hemostatic status in these patients to avoid bleeding and thrombotic complications. Currently, conventional plasma-based coagulation assays such as prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) are used to assess hemostasis, and the activated clotting time (ACT) and aPTT are the most common tests used to monitor heparin anticoagulation in patients on ECMO. Unfractionated heparin remains the mainstay anticoagulation therapy for patients on ECMO. Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) offers little guidance on the subject but does state that each institution should create its internal anticoagulation protocols. Viscoelastic assays (VEAs) are increasingly recognized by ELSO and ECMO community for their potential to assess hemostatic derangements in patients implanted with MCSDs as well as guidance for appropriate hemostatic therapy. This review focuses on the evidence for the use of viscoelastic assays to assess overall hemostasis and to guide the treatment of adult patients connected to an ECMO circuit. Limitations of the use of conventional assays, ACT, and VEA are also discussed.
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- Oksana Volod
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- College of Health Professions, South University Online, Savannah, Georgia
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Cheng Y, Shao T, Huang L, Xu H, Shao P, Yang D, Ge W, Xu Y, Zhang M. Platelet Function Tests Predicting the Efficacy and Safety of Aspirin Secondary Prevention. Neurol Res 2021; 44:291-298. [PMID: 34581662 DOI: 10.1080/01616412.2021.1981103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To precisely prevent stroke, we evaluated three platelet function tests and their associations with clinical outcomes in ischemic stroke patients. METHODS On-treatment platelet reactivity of acute minor stroke patients taking aspirin plus clopidogrel was tested by light transmittance aggregometry (LTA), thromboelastography (TEG) and platelet function analyzer (PFA). Mann-Whitney U tests and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis were used to assess their associations with recurrent events and clinical outcome prediction. RESULTS 127 acute minor stroke patients were stringently selected and followed for 13 months. Eight patients (6.3%) self-reported the recurrence and 13 (10.2%) patients self-reported bleeding. Recurrent patients displayed significantly higher on-treatment platelet reactivity when measured with LTA (p = 0.030) and PFA (p < 0.001). Further ROC analysis demonstrated that LTA and PFA had modest-to-fair ability to predict stroke recurrence (LTA: area under the curve [AUC], 0.765; 95% CI, 0.584-0.945, PFA: AUC, 0.832; 95% CI, 0.658-1.000). However, TEG (measured by the platelet inhibition rate) could not detect the difference between recurrent patients and non-recurrent patients (p = 0.515) and predict recurrent events (AUC, 0.569; 95% CI, 0.368-0.770). None of the tests were associated with bleeding except for PFA (p < 0.001), with AUC of PFA reaching 0.772 (0.726-0.818). CONCLUSIONS Of the three tests assessed, the predictive accuracies of PFA and LTA were satisfying for aspirin secondary prevention, while TEG's performance was poor. Only PFA could provide accurate prognostic information for bleeding.
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- Yue Cheng
- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,Nanjing Neurology Clinic Medical Center, Nanjing, China.,Institute of Brain Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,Nanjing Medical Center for Clinical Pharmacy, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,Nanjing Neurology Clinic Medical Center, Nanjing, China.,Institute of Brain Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,Nanjing Neurology Clinic Medical Center, Nanjing, China.,Institute of Brain Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,Nanjing Neurology Clinic Medical Center, Nanjing, China.,Institute of Brain Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,Nanjing Neurology Clinic Medical Center, Nanjing, China.,Institute of Brain Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,Nanjing Medical Center for Clinical Pharmacy, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,Nanjing Neurology Clinic Medical Center, Nanjing, China.,Institute of Brain Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.,Nanjing Neurology Clinic Medical Center, Nanjing, China.,Institute of Brain Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Shao T, Cheng Y, Jin J, Huang L, Yang D, Luo C, Han Z, Wang Z, Ge W, Xu Y. A comparison of three platelet function tests in ischemic stroke patients with antiplatelet therapy. J Clin Neurosci 2020; 78:91-96. [PMID: 32624366 DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2020.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2020] [Revised: 04/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Predicting the effectiveness of antiplatelet drugs is critical to precision antiplatelet therapy. However, there is a lack of an acceptable method, although there are a variety of methods for detecting platelet function. In this study, we compared three major platelet function tests to assess their performance and found better methods for platelet function evaluation after aspirin or clopidogrel treatment in ischemic stroke patients by comparative study. A total of 249 ischemic stroke patients were enrolled who were treated with aspirin or clopidogrel or both. Three platelet function tests including light transmittance aggregometry (LTA), thromboelastography (TEG), platelet function analyzer (PFA) were performed as well as CYP2C19 genotype determination. Correlation analyses and kappa statistics were used. All three methods were effective in evaluating aspirin function. However, only LTA and TEG had good correlation and consistency (r = -0.37, kappa = 0.634). TEG-ADP was the least sensitive for clopidogrel, as the platelet inhibition ratio did not differ between the clopidogrel-user group and the control (P = 0.074), while LTA and PFA were sensitive (P < 0.001). Correlations between platelet assays were poor for clopidogrel (the absolute value of r range from 0.13 to 0.35) and so was the agreement (Kappa from 0.232 to 0.314). LTA and PFA have a good correlation with CYP2C19 genotyping (P = 0.034 and 0.014). In conclusion, all three tests were able to evaluate aspirin effect, LTA-AA and TEG-AA had a good correlation. TEG perform badly for clopidogrel effect detection. The fair-to-modest agreement among assays indicated further study was indispensable.
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- Tengfei Shao
- Department of Pharmacy, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
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Platelet Mapping by Thromboelastography and Whole Blood Aggregometry in Adult Patients Supported by Mechanical Circulatory Support Device on Aspirin Therapy. THE JOURNAL OF EXTRA-CORPOREAL TECHNOLOGY 2020; 52:13-21. [PMID: 32280140 DOI: 10.1182/ject-1900029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2019] [Accepted: 02/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Patients on mechanical circulatory support (MCS) devices are placed on aspirin and may require platelet function testing (PFT) to monitor the adequacy of therapy. Routine laboratory PFT is performed using whole blood aggregation (WBA) which typically has a long turnaround time (4-5 hours) and may not be readily available. By contrast, platelet mapping by thromboelastography (TPM) can provide results within 45 minutes. The objective of this study was to compare the results of TPM with WBA. We compared platelet mapping maximal amplitude (MA) by TPM with that of arachidonic acid (AA) to WBA with AA by impedance. We analyzed paired samples where both TPM and WBA were available. Of 45 paired samples, 34 were from 29 MCS patients and 11 were from non-MCS patients. When applying institutional interpretation guidelines with an MAActivator cutoff of ≤40 mm, WBAAA vs TPM MAAA in non-MCS and MCS patients correlated well with an accuracy of 100 and 94.4%, respectively. MAActivator >40 had poor correlation with an accuracy of 37.5%. Irrespective of MAActivator value, TPM AA inhibition expressed in percent of inhibition had poor accuracy. When used with proper guidelines for interpretation, specifically when MAActivator ≤ 40 mm, TPM is a suitable and reliable test to use for MCS patients on aspirin.
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Kim JS, Kaufman J, Patel SS, Manco-Johnson M, Di Paola J, da Cruz EM. Antiplatelet Effect of Ketorolac in Children After Congenital Cardiac Surgery. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2018; 9:651-658. [DOI: 10.1177/2150135118799041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: Ketorolac is used for pediatric analgesia after surgery despite its known platelet inhibition via the arachidonic acid (AA) pathway. The degree of platelet inhibitory effect after cardiac surgery is not well characterized. Thromboelastography with platelet mapping (TEG-PM) is emerging as a frequently used test to evaluate platelet inhibition via the AA pathway. Methods: Post hoc analysis of a data set collected in a prospective observational cohort study evaluating platelet inhibition in children after congenital heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Categorization into two groups: (1) received ketorolac and (2) did not receive ketorolac for analgesia after surgery. The TEG-PM was evaluated at two time points (prior to surgery and 12-48 hours after CPB). Results: Fifty-three children were studied; mean age was 6.6 (range: 0.07-16.7) years and 45% (n = 24) were female. Participants were distributed into two groups by ketorolac use, 41 within the ketorolac group and 12 in the no ketorolac group. All 41 participants who received ketorolac had platelet inhibition and 11 (91.7%) of 12 participants who did not receive ketorolac had normal platelet function after surgery ( P < .0001). There was no difference in patient characteristics or clinical data between the two groups. Conclusions: Ketorolac use in a cohort of children after congenital cardiac surgery was associated with platelet inhibition via the AA pathway when evaluated by TEG-PM.
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- John S. Kim
- Department of Pediatrics, Heart Institute, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Heart Institute, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Heart Institute, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Heart Institute, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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