AIM To determine the frequency of inherited and acquired prothrombotic risk factors in children with arterial ischemic stroke (AIS) and transient ischemic attacks (TIA) in Croatia. METHODS We investigated 14 prothrombotic risk factors using blood samples from 124 children with AIS or TIA and 42 healthy children. Prothrombotic risk factors were classified into five groups: natural coagulation ...

Burn injury is traditionally referred to as a common triggering cause of acute coagulopathy, ranging from subclinical activation of coagulation to fulminant overt Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC). Coagulopathy associated with burn injury was well recognized as early as the 1970s.1,2 Coagulopathy in burn patients is considered to be driven by an endothelial injury, release of tissue ...