Rapid Diagnostic of Hyperfibrinolysis in Liver Transplantation

During liver transplantation (LT), hyperfibrinolysis is one of the most important modification of haemostasis. It is associated with t-PA and protein C increased activity. Hyperfibrinolysis is frequent, hardly predictable and associated with major bleeding. The diagnostic of hyperfibrinolysis with standard laboratory tests (euglobulin lysis test, t-PA, PAI-1 and D-dimers dosages) does not provide an answer in a delay compatible with the clinical practice in the operating room.

The "Lysis Timer" is a device developed by Hyphen-Sysmex in collaboration with SD Innovation and Charleroi University Hospital (Belgium). It allows the implementation of the "Global Fibrinolytic Capacity", or GFC test, in a complete system associating i) the reagents for in vitro triggering of the clot and its lysis (contact system activators, t-PA, thrombin and calcium), ii) the signal acquisition by the Lysis Timer (able to convert the analogic signal of the absorbance modifications related to clot formation into a numeric signal) and iii) a dedicated software treating the numeric signal to define clot lysis time.

The GFC test, using t-PA to shorten signal acquisition times, is particularly adapted to the diagnosis of hyperfibrinolysis with PAI-1 collapse, of which LT is an example.