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Fibrinogen Caracas V, an abnormal fibrinogen with an Aalpha 532 Ser-->Cys substitution associated with thrombosis.
Thrombosis and haemostasis - 1 Aug 2000
Marchi R, Lundberg U, Grimbergen J, Koopman J, Torres A, de Bosch N B, Haverkate F, Arocha Piñango C L
Abstract excerpt
A new dysfibrinogenemia associated with thrombophilia has been identified in a Venezuelan kindred. Thrombin and Reptilase times were prolonged and the accelerating capacity of the patient's fibrin on the t-PA-induced plasminogen activation was decreased. In addition the affinity of fibrinogen for plasminogen was diminished. Permeability and electron microscopy studies revealed that the abnormal clot was made up...
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