Antithrombin V--a rare concomitant symptom in plasmacytoma and autoimmune diseases
Lutze, G.; Dieckmann, U.; Franke, A.; Mittler, U.
Folia Haematologica 110(2): 278-292
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0323-4347 PMID: 6194061 Document Number: 217045
Antithrombin V as a pathological inhibitor of coagulation may occur in some rare cases as an accompanying symptom of various basic diseases. In the course of two years, antithrombin V could be identified in 8 patients, with plasmocytoma, lupus erythematodes visceralis, glomerulonephritis or colitis ulcerosa existing as basic diseases. Clinical findings in patients and those gained in analyzing coagulation, procedures of laboratory diagnostics for determining characteristic properties of antithrombin V as well as the therapeutic way of influencing the activity of antithrombin V are represented.