Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Pulmonary embolism is a life threatening manifestation of VTE that occurs in at least half the patients on presentation. In addition, VTE recurs in up to 30% of patients after a standard course of anticoagulation, and there i...
Recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) occurs infrequently following a provoked event but occurs in up to 30% of individuals following an initial unprovoked event. We studied 134 patients with VTE separated into 3 groups: (1) ‘low-risk’ patients had ≥1 provoked VTE; (2) ‘moderate-risk’ pa...
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common, multi-causal disease with potentially serious short- and long-term complications. In clinical practice, there is a need for improved plasma biomarker-based tools for VTE diagnosis and risk prediction. We use multiplex proteomics profiling to screen plasma fr...
The aim of our study was to optimize quantitative proteomic analysis of fibrin clots prepared ex vivo from citrated plasma of the peripheral blood drawn from patients with prior venous thromboembolism. We used a multiple enzyme digestion filter aided sample preparation (MED FASP) method combined wi...
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is associated with arterial and venous thrombosis. The unfavorable fibrin clot phenotype, including formation of dense and poorly lysable clots, has been reported both in thrombotic APS and venous thromboembolism (VTE). The presence and amount of different proteins wi...