Fibrinopeptide A increases after chorionic villus sampling
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F Al-Gailani1, S Elias, J L Simpson
1Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611.
Prenatal Diagnosis
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
Fibrinopeptide levels were measured in 20 women during transcervical chorionic villus sampling (CVS). Fibrinopeptide A, a sensitive indicator of fibrinogen cleavage by thrombin, significantly increased in five subjects, whereas there was no change in B beta peptide, an indicator of fibrinolysis. The data suggest that modest fibrin formation, uncompensated by fibrinolysis, may be induced in some women by CVS.