• Fibrinolysis is a process that prevents blood clots from growing and becoming problematic. Primary fibrinolysis is a normal body process, while secondary...
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    using thrombolysis (particularly fibrinolysis) in treating heart attacks. It works by stimulating secondary fibrinolysis by plasmin through infusion of...
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  • Fibrinolysis syndrome is characterized by an acute hemorrhagic state brought about by inability of the blood to clot, with massive hemorrhages into the...
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    necessary for the breakdown of fibrin clots, or fibrinolysis. In DIC, the processes of coagulation and fibrinolysis are dysregulated, and the result is widespread...
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    Eventually, blood clots are reorganized and resorbed by a process termed fibrinolysis. The main enzyme responsible for this process is plasmin, which is regulated...
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  • protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot is degraded by fibrinolysis. It is so named because it contains two D fragments of the fibrin protein...
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  • Term thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor may refer to: Carboxypeptidase B2, an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CPB2 gene Lysine carboxypeptidase...
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    activator (tPA) and urokinase (uPA), the activators of plasminogen and hence fibrinolysis (the physiological breakdown of blood clots). It is a serine protease...
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  • Antithrombin III Protein S Protein C Fibrinolysis: Breakdown of fibrin clots Plasminogen Inhibitors of fibrinolysis α2-antiplasmin Complement components...
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    use of tPA in ischemic stroke; but debate continues. Intra-arterial fibrinolysis, where a catheter is passed up an artery into the brain and the medication...
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