Hemostasis in liver transplantation: Pathophysiology,monitoring, and treatment

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摘要 Recentfindingsinthepathophysiologyandmonitoringofhemostasisinpatientswithendstageliverdiseasehavemajorimpactoncoagulationmanagementduringlivertransplantation.Thereisincreasingevidence,thatthechangesinbothcoagulationfactorsandplateletcountregularlyobservedinpatientswithlivercirrhosiscannotbeinterpretedasareliableindicatorofdiffusebleedingrisk.Instead,adifferentiatedviewonhemostasishasledtotheconceptofarebalancedcoagulationsystemWhileitisimportanttorecognizethatprocoagulantfactorsarereducedinlivercirrhosis,itisalsoevidentthatsynthesisofanticoagulantfactorsandfibrinolyticproteinsproducedintheliverisalsodiminished.Similarly,thedecreasedplateletcountmaybecounterbalancedbyincreasedplateletaggregabilitycausedbyhighlyactivevonWillebrandmultimeres.Thecoagulationsystemisthereforstatedtoberebalanced.Whileundernormal"unstressed"conditionsdiffusebleedingisrarelyobserved,howeverbothdiffusebleedingorthrombusformationmayoccurwhencompensationmechanismsareexhausted.Whilemostpatientspresentingforlivertransplantationhaveseverecirrhosis,liverfunctionandthusproductionofpro-andanticoagulantfactorscanbepreservedespeciallyincholestaticliverdisease.Duringlivertransplantation,profoundchangesinthehemostasissystemcanoccur.Surgicalbleedingcanleadtodiffusebleedingascoagulationfactorsandplateletsarealreadyreduced.Ischemiaandtissuetraumacanleadtoalterationsofhemostasiscomparabletotraumainducedcoagulopathy.Afurthercommondisturbanceoftenstartingwiththereperfusionofthetransplantedorganishyperfibrinolysiswhichcaneventuallyprecipitatecompleteconsumptionoffibrinogenandanendogenousheparinizationbyglycocalyxshedding.Moreover,thromboticeventsinlivertransplantationsarenotuncommonandcontributetoincreasedmortality.Besidesconventionallaboratorymethods,bed-sidemonitoringofhemostasis(e.g.,thrombelastography,thrombe
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出版日期 2016年04月14日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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