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Circulating Thrombin Time Anticoagulant in a Procainamide-lnduced Syndrome FREE

Dennis K. Galanakis, MD; Joseph Newman, MD; Donald Summers, MD
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JAMA. 1978;239(18):1873-1874. doi:10.1001/jama.1978.03280450045022
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Circulating anticoagulants are unusual in drug-induced syndromes. We evaluated the prolonged thrombin time of plasma from a patient with a procainamide-induced syndrome. This defect was shown to be due to a circulating anticoagulant that was not of fibrin or fibrinogen origin and that prolonged thrombin and reptilase clotting times of plasma. Subclinical doses of heparin sodium induced hemorrhagic manifestations in this patient. Following cessation of heparin therapy, the circulating anticoagulant persisted but the bleeding tendency abated. All clinical and laboratory manifestations of this syndrome abated gradually following cessation of procainamide therapy.

(JAMA 239:1873-1874, 1978)

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Poon M-C, Saito H, Ratnoff OD, et al:  Techniques for demonstration of the specificity of circulating anticoagulants against antihemophilic factor (factor VIII) with studies of two cases possibly related to diphenhydantoin therapy . Blood 49:477-482, 1977;.
Godal HC, Abildgaard U:  Gelation of soluble fibrin in plasma by ethanol . Scand J Haematol 3:342-350, 1966;.
Merskey C, Kleiner JG, Johnson AJ:  Quantitative estimation of split products of fibrinogen in human serum: Relation to diagnosis and treatment . Blood 28:1-18, 1966;.
Lipinska I, Lipinski B, Gurewich V, et al:  Fibrinogen heterogeneity in cancer, in occlusive vascular disease, and after surgical procedures . Am J Clin Pathol 66:958-966, 1976;.
Coleman M, Vigliano EM, Weksler ME, et al:  Inhibition of fibrin monomer polymerization by lambda myeloma globulins . Blood 39:210-223, 1972;.
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