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Blood, 1 November 2001, Vol. 98, No. 9, pp. 2730-2735
HEMOSTASIS, THROMBOSIS, AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY
Changes in health and disease of the metalloprotease that cleaves
von Willebrand factor
Pier Mannuccio Mannucci,
Maria Teresa Canciani,
Ileana Forza,
Federico Lussana,
Antonella Lattuada, and
Edoardo Rossi
From the Angelo Bianchi Bonomi Hemophilia and
Thrombosis Center, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
Maggiore Hospital, University of Milan, and the Blood Transfusion
Center, Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Congenital or immunomediated deficiencies of the metalloprotease
that cleaves physiologically von Willebrand factor (vWF) reduce or
abolish the degradation of ultralarge vWF multimers that cause the
formation of intravascular platelet thrombi in patients with thrombotic
thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). There is little knowledge on the
behavior of the protease in other physiological and pathologic
conditions. Such knowledge is important to evaluate the specificity of
low protease plasma levels in the diagnosis of TTP. Using an enzyme
immunoassay, the protease was measured in 177 control subjects
of different ages, in 26 full-term newborns, and in 69 women during
normal pregnancy. Because TTP is often associated with multiorgan
involvement and acute phase reactions, clinical models of these
pathologic conditions were also investigated, including decompensated
liver cirrhosis (n = 42), chronic uremia (n = 63), acute
inflammatory states (n = 15), and the preoperative and postoperative
states (n = 24). Protease levels were lower in healthy persons older
than 65 than in younger persons. They were low in newborns but became
normal within 6 months, and they were lower in the last 2 trimesters of pregnancy than in the first. Protease levels were also
low in patients with cirrhosis, uremia, and acute inflammation, and
they fell in the postoperative period. There was an inverse relation
between low protease and high plasma levels of vWF antigen and
collagen-binding activity. In conclusion, low plasma levels of the vWF
cleaving protease are not a specific beacon of TTP because the protease
is also low in several physiological and pathologic conditions.

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