Introduction: Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is characterized by swelling, proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, or hyperlipidemia. The incidence of NS depends on the country and ethnicity highest in Asia than Europe. can cause complications such as arterial thromboembolism (ATE) due to a hypercoagulable state. Case Presentation: We encountered 9-year-old boy with infarct stroke, which was treated corticoster...

Thromboelastography (TEG) provides a functional evaluation of coagulation. It has characteristics of an ideal coagulation test for trauma, but is not frequently used, partially due to lack of both standardized techniques and normal values. We determined normal values for our population, compared them to those of the manufacturer and evaluated the effect of gender, age, blood type, and ethnicity...

INTRODUCTION Impairment of fibrinolysis during sepsis is associated with worse outcome. Early identification of this condition could be of interest. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether a modified point-of-care viscoelastic hemostatic assay can detect sepsis-induced impairment of fibrinolysis and to correlate impaired fibrinolysis with morbidity and mortality. METHODS This single cen...

UNLABELLED Transfusion therapy after cardiac surgery is empirically guided, partly due to a lack of specific point-of-care hemostasis monitors. In a randomized, blinded, prospective trial, we studied cardiac surgical patients at moderate to high risk of transfusion. Patients were randomly assigned to either a thromboelastography (TEG)-guided transfusion algorithm (n = 53) or routine transfusion...

Methods The study involved 63 patients who entered the Odessa Regional Hospital with traumatic injuries: concomitant skeletal trauma, fractures of femur and humerus. Patients were divided into 2 groups: 1 group (n = 32) as a treatment of coagulopathy was received PCC in a dose of 1 ml/kg (25 IU/kg) at time of admission to the intensive care unit (ICU); 2 group (n = 31) received FFP in a dose of...

We report a case of a patient who underwent Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT) while being continued on his dual antiplatelet regimen of clopidigrel and aspirin perioperatively. The patient had two drug eluting stents for coronary artery disease placed eight months prior to surgery. Preoperative thromboelastography and platelet mapping showed normal clot formation. Based on these tests i...

In cardiac surgical patients we investigated the effects of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) with a hollow fiber membrane oxygenator on blood clotting measured by thromboelastography (TEG). We found only a minimal change in the strength of blood clot described either by the TEG parameter MA (maximum amplitude) or by the shear modulus G calculated from MA. After CPB there was also a significant tend...

INTRODUCTION: Maintaining optimal coagulation is vital for successful microvascular flap transfer. Hypercoagulate states are risk factors for pedicle thrombosis and flap loss.1 Therefore, identifying patients who are at risk for such events is paramount. The viscoelastic Thromboelastography (TEG) is a modern method to assess a patient’s coagulation status and in the past, it has predominantly b...

INTRODUCTION: Maintaining optimal coagulation is vital for successful microvascular flap transfer. Hypercoagulate states are risk factors for pedicle thrombosis and flap loss.1 Therefore, identifying patients who are at risk for such events is paramount. The viscoelastic Thromboelastography (TEG) is a modern method to assess a patient’s coagulation status and in the past, it has predominantly b...