Local Abnormalities of Coagulation and Fibrinolysis and Alveolar Fibrin Deposition in Sheep with Oleic Acid-induced Lung Injury
- 31 October 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Thoracic Society in American Review of Respiratory Disease
- Vol. 138 (5) , 1282-1294
- https://doi.org/10.1164/ajrccm/138.5.1282
Abstract
Extravascular, primarily intra-alveolar, fibrin deposition is a histologic hallmark of acute lung injury in humans and experimental animals, but the mechanisms leading to this finding are poorly understood. To determine whether local abnormalities in the fibrinolytic-procoagulant balance contribute to alveolar fibrin deposition in acute lung injury, we studied bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluids of anesthetized sheep that received intravenous oleic acid. Prominent alveolar fibrin deposition was observed within 2 h after oleic acid-induced lung injury. Procoagulant and fibrinolytic activities were determined in BAL samples of anesthetized, mechanically ventilated sheep before and 2 hr after intravenous oleic acid or saline. BAL procoagulant activity was found to be due mainly to tissue factor associated with Factor VII. In baseline BAL samples, we found relatively low levels of procoagulant activity and relatively high levels of fibrinolytic activity. After induction of oleic acidp-induced lung injury, the procoagulant activity of BAL was markedly increased, whereas fibrinolytic activity was either depressed or undetectable. Antiplasmin activity was detectable in BAL of sheep after oleic acid-induced lung injury, which contributed at least in part to the depressed fibrinolytic activity observed. These perturbations occurred with the appearance of extensive alveolar fibrin deposition. In control sheep, BAL fibrinolytic activity was decreased, and antiplasmin activity increased modestly after 2 h of mechanical ventilation, but procoagulant activity was unchanged and alveolar fibrin was not observed. Procoagulant actrivity in lung lymph and plasma after lung injury did not differ from baseline values, and fibrinolytic activity was undetectable in lymph or plants samples. These data indicate that increased procoagulant activity and concurrent disruption of the balance of coagulation and fibrinolysis establish local conditions that promote acute fibrin-deposition in the alveoli of mechanically ventilated, oleic acid-injured sheep.This publication has 35 references indexed in Scilit:
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