Hong-Cheng Du, Yun-Fei Zheng, Meng-Qi Shen, Bai-Yang Deng
{"title":"Reply to \"Commentary: 'No Genetic Causality between Tobacco Smoking and Venous Thromboembolism: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study' \".","authors":"Hong-Cheng Du, Yun-Fei Zheng, Meng-Qi Shen, Bai-Yang Deng","doi":"10.1055/s-0044-1791679","DOIUrl":"10.1055/s-0044-1791679","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23036,"journal":{"name":"Thrombosis and haemostasis","volume":" ","pages":"1171-1176"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142372943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 2024 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Atrial Fibrillation: A Viewpoint from a Practicing Clinician's Perspective.","authors":"Tatjana Potpara, Giulio F Romiti, Christian Sohns","doi":"10.1055/a-2434-9244","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2434-9244","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a complex disease requiring a multidomain and (usually) long-term management, thus posing a significant burden to patients with AF, practitioners, and health care system. Unlike cardiovascular conditions with a narrow referral pathway (e.g., acute coronary syndrome), AF may be first detected by a wide range of specialties (often noncardiology) or a general practitioner. Since timely initiated optimal management is essential for the prevention of AF-related complications, a concise and simple guidance is essential for practitioners managing AF patients, regardless of their specialty. Guideline-adherent management of patients with AF has been shown to translate to improved patient outcomes compared with guideline-nonadherent treatment. To facilitate guideline implementation in routine clinical practice, a good guideline document on AF should introduce only evidence-based new recommendations, while avoiding arbitrary changes, which may be confusing to practitioners. Herein, we discuss the main changes in the 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) AF Guidelines relative to the previous 2020 ESC document. Whether the updates and new recommendations issued by the new guidelines will translate in high adherence in clinical practice (and hence improved prognosis of patients with AF) will need to be addressed in upcoming years.</p>","PeriodicalId":23036,"journal":{"name":"Thrombosis and haemostasis","volume":" ","pages":"1087-1094"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142393595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sayhaan R Goraya, Connor O'Hare, Kelsey A Grace, William J Schaeffer, S Nabeel Hyder, Geoffrey D Barnes, Colin F Greineder
{"title":"Optimizing Use of High-Sensitivity Troponin for Risk-Stratification of Acute Pulmonary Embolism.","authors":"Sayhaan R Goraya, Connor O'Hare, Kelsey A Grace, William J Schaeffer, S Nabeel Hyder, Geoffrey D Barnes, Colin F Greineder","doi":"10.1055/s-0044-1786820","DOIUrl":"10.1055/s-0044-1786820","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong> High-sensitivity troponin T (HS-TnT) may improve risk-stratification in hemodynamically stable acute pulmonary embolism (PE), but an optimal strategy for combining this biomarker with clinical risk-stratification tools has not been determined.</p><p><strong>Study hypothesis: </strong> We hypothesized that different HS-TnT cutoff values may be optimal for identifying (1) low-risk patients who may be eligible for outpatient management and (2) patients at increased risk of clinical deterioration who might benefit from advanced PE therapies.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong> Retrospective analysis of hemodynamically stable patients in the University of Michigan acute ED-PE registry with available HS-TnT values. Primary and secondary outcomes were 30-day mortality and need for intensive care unit-level care. Receiver operating characteristic curves were used to determine optimal HS-TnT cutoffs in the entire cohort, and for those at higher risk based on the simplified Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI) or imaging findings.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong> The optimal HS-TnT cutoff in the full cohort, 12 pg/mL, was significantly associated with 30-day mortality (odds ratio [OR]: 3.94, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.48-10.50) and remained a significant predictor after adjusting for the simplified PESI (sPESI) score and serum creatinine (adjusted OR: 3.05, 95% CI: 1.11-8.38). A HS-TnT cutoff of 87 pg/mL was associated with 30-day mortality (OR: 5.01, 95% CI: 2.08-12.06) in patients with sPESI ≥1 or right ventricular dysfunction.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong> In this retrospective, single-center study of acute PE patients, we identified distinct optimal HS-TnT values for different clinical uses-a lower cutoff, which identified low-risk patients even in the absence of other risk-stratification methods, and a higher cutoff, which was strongly associated with adverse outcomes in patients at increased risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":23036,"journal":{"name":"Thrombosis and haemostasis","volume":" ","pages":"1134-1142"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141094205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary: \"No Genetic Causality between Tobacco Smoking and Venous Thromboembolism: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study\".","authors":"Jinhua Liu, Youqian Zhang, Bo Zeng","doi":"10.1055/s-0044-1787653","DOIUrl":"10.1055/s-0044-1787653","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23036,"journal":{"name":"Thrombosis and haemostasis","volume":" ","pages":"1169-1170"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141284849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID-19 Patients Putting on the Brakes with PAR1 Autoantibodies.","authors":"NaShea C Kendrick, Marvin T Nieman","doi":"10.1055/a-2442-9667","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2442-9667","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23036,"journal":{"name":"Thrombosis and haemostasis","volume":" ","pages":"1167-1168"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142475429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaoyan Chen, Jingke Li, Pu Liu, Yangfan Zhou, Tongtong Zhang, Li Li, Jingqi Shi, Xin Deng, Yilin Sheng, Wei Chen, Di Wang, Hu Hu
{"title":"Inflammasome-Independent Mechanism of NLRP3 is Critical for Platelet GPIb-IX Function and Thrombosis.","authors":"Xiaoyan Chen, Jingke Li, Pu Liu, Yangfan Zhou, Tongtong Zhang, Li Li, Jingqi Shi, Xin Deng, Yilin Sheng, Wei Chen, Di Wang, Hu Hu","doi":"10.1055/a-2263-8372","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2263-8372","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong> Platelets link thrombosis and inflammation, but how platelets handle the endogenous intraplatelet inflammatory machinery is less well understood. NACHT, LRR, and PYD domain-containing protein 3 (NLRP3) is the central component of the interleukin (IL)-1-producing inflammasome. Elucidating the cell type-specific mechanism of NLRP3 in platelets may improve our understanding of thrombotic diseases.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong> Ferric chloride-induced mesenteric arteriole thrombosis models, tail bleeding models, and microfluidic whole-blood perfusion were used to study thrombosis and hemostasis. Additionally, we utilized aggregometry, flow cytometry, immunoprecipitation, and western blotting to investigate glycoprotein (GP)Ib-IX-mediated platelet function and signaling.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong> NLRP3<sup>-/-</sup> mice exhibited severely impaired thrombosis and hemostasis, whereas apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD (ASC)<sup>-/-</sup>, caspase-1<sup>-/-</sup>, and <i>Nlrp3</i> <sup>A350V/+</sup> <i>CrePF4</i> mice did not exhibit such changes. NLRP3<sup>-/-</sup> platelets exhibited reduced adhesion to injured vessel walls and collagen and impaired von Willebrand factor (vWF)-dependent translocation and rolling behavior. NLRP3 deficiency decreased botrocetin-induced platelet aggregation and the phosphorylation of key signaling molecules in the GPIb-IX pathway. Mechanistically, decreased cAMP/PKA activity led to reduced phosphorylation of NLRP3, thereby enabling the interaction between NLRP3 and filamin A. This interaction accelerated the dissociation of filamin A from GPIbα, which allowed a 14-3-3ζ-dependent increase in GPIb-IX affinity to vWF. Finally, platelet NLRP3 was found to largely regulate thrombotic disease models, such as models of stroke and deep vein thrombosis.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong> NLRP3 promoted the function of the major platelet adhesion receptor GPIb-IX without involving NLRP3 inflammasome assembly or IL-1β production.</p>","PeriodicalId":23036,"journal":{"name":"Thrombosis and haemostasis","volume":" ","pages":"1095-1113"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139703513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sandra Ortega-Martorell, Evi van Kempen, Eric Jouvent, Anil M Tuladhar
{"title":"The Rise of the Machines: Using Machine Learning to Assess Thrombosis and Bleeding Risks, and Optimizing Anticoagulation Strategies.","authors":"Sandra Ortega-Martorell, Evi van Kempen, Eric Jouvent, Anil M Tuladhar","doi":"10.1055/a-2460-2894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2460-2894","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23036,"journal":{"name":"Thrombosis and haemostasis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142755489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blood Loss in Women of Childbearing Potential Taking Oral Anticoagulants for Venous Thromboembolism (The BLEED Study).","authors":"Elvira Grandone, Mario Mastroianno, Gabriella Pacilli, Donatella Colaizzo, Alessandra Margaglione, Behnood Bikdeli, Gregory Piazza","doi":"10.1055/a-2461-6822","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2461-6822","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong> Oral anticoagulants (OAC) may exacerbate menstrual bleeding in women of childbearing age; however, the existing literature on this issue has several limitations.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong> This study investigates abnormal uterine bleeding in women of childbearing age taking OAC-vitamin K antagonists or direct oral anticoagulants-for venous thromboembolism through a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data. Uterine bleeding was assessed using the Pictorial Blood Assessment Chart (PBAC) and hemoglobin (Hb) values during anticoagulation compared with prior therapy. The number of unplanned medical visits for bleeding complications was also calculated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong> From June 2014 to November 2023, 110 women were recruited (median age, 36 years). PBAC scores correlated with Hb values at baseline and during therapy (analysis of variance [ANOVA], <i>p</i> < 0.01), with a significant difference in Hb values before and during anticoagulant therapy (delta Hb) among groups (ANOVA, p.0.034). Seventeen women (15.5%) reported uterine fibroids, experiencing a greater reduction in Hb values during anticoagulant administration than women without uterine fibroids (delta 0.3, interquartile range [IQR]: 0.8, 2.9 vs. 0.5, IQR 1.2, 0.3; p.0.012). Women with selfreported uterine fibroids required more frequent unplanned medical consultations for bleeding (mean visits 5 vs. 4, respectively; Poisson regression, <i>p</i> < 0.05). Among women with uterine fibroids, those taking apixaban showed smaller Hb changes than those on other oral anticoagulants (ANOVA, p.0.047). This difference persisted even after adjusting for potential confounders (multiple ANOVA, p.0.004).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong> Women of childbearing age taking OAC frequently experience changes in Hb values and PBAC scores during treatment, with uterine fibroids playing a significant role.</p>","PeriodicalId":23036,"journal":{"name":"Thrombosis and haemostasis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142591167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tim A C de Vries, Imaad U Mallick, Vinai C Bhagirath, John W Eikelboom, Calvin Gomes, Qilong Yi, Sean McGrath, Jack Hirsh, Noel C Chan
{"title":"Usual On-therapy Ranges of Drug Concentrations in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Treated with Direct Oral Anticoagulants: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.","authors":"Tim A C de Vries, Imaad U Mallick, Vinai C Bhagirath, John W Eikelboom, Calvin Gomes, Qilong Yi, Sean McGrath, Jack Hirsh, Noel C Chan","doi":"10.1055/a-2446-1348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2446-1348","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong> Although most patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) receiving a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) do not require drug concentration measurements, there are situations where such information could be useful. Existing guidance documents provide usual on-therapy ranges for drug concentrations, but these have important limitations.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong> This is a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies reporting trough and peak levels of DOAC regimens approved for stroke prevention in AF. We used random effects models and the quantile estimation method to estimate the median and a usual on-therapy range (10<sup>th</sup> and 90<sup>th</sup> percentiles).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong> Of 4,822 unique publications, 53 studies met eligibility (29,266 trough and 12,103 peak levels). Usual on-therapy ranges for trough levels were 38 to 155 and 58 to 206 ng/mL for apixaban 2.5 and 5 mg twice daily; 35 to 138 and 33 to 151 ng/mL for dabigatran 110 and 150 mg twice daily; 8 to 54 and 13 to 66 ng/mL for edoxaban 30 and 60 mg daily; and 16 to 74 and 19 to 72 ng/mL for rivaroxaban 15 and 20 mg daily. The corresponding range for peak levels were 96 to 251 and 132 to 343; 65 to 223 and 76 to 285; 57 to 219 and 127 to 407; 131 to 384, and 169 to 313 ng/mL, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong> This systematic review and meta-analysis provides updated and more representative usual on-therapy ranges of DOAC levels in patients with AF.</p>","PeriodicalId":23036,"journal":{"name":"Thrombosis and haemostasis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142732761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}