Plasma $ - Thromboglobulin : Differentiation Between Intravascular and Extravascular Platelet Destruction

To elucidate the usefulness of $-thrombocoagulation (DIC). Plasma $TG was not globulin (fiTG) in the differentiation of the measurable in amegakaryocytic thrombomechanism of thrombocytopenia, plasma cytopenia, was normal in ATP, and was TG concentration was measured in one increased in TTP and DIC. These data mdipatient with amegakaryocytic thrombocycate that in thrombocytopenic patients, topenia, four patients with autoimmune increased plasma TG concentration may thrombocytopenia (ATP), two patients result from intravascular platelet consumpwith thrombotic thrombocytopenia (TTP). tion with release of platelet constituents in and one patient with thrombocytopenia contrast to extravascular platelet destrucsecondary to disseminated intravascular tion by the macrophage-monocyte system.