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Background Bronchial asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways. Thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) is a carboxypeptidase that besides inhibiting fibrinolysis, also regulates inflammatory processes. The only validated substrate known for TAFI is fibrin. In the present study we evaluated the role of TAFI in bronchial asthma by comparing the development of allergic bronchial asthma...
Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have a high frequency of cardiovascular diseases and hypercoagulability is believed to be involved in the mechanism of those vascular events. We evaluated whether there is a dysfunction in the protein C anticoagulant pathway in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Two hundred ninety-three patients were enrolled. To confirm the diagnosis of OSA, all-night...
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