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Disseminated intravascular coagulation in farmed Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L: evidence of consumptive coagulopathy
Author(s) -
SALTE R.,
NORBERG K.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of fish diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-2761
pISSN - 0140-7775
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2761.1991.tb00600.x
Subject(s) - salmo , consumptive coagulopathy , coagulopathy , disseminated intravascular coagulation , partial thromboplastin time , fibrinogen , biology , prothrombin time , coagulation , fish <actinopterygii> , fishery , medicine , biochemistry
. Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., suffering from ‘Hitra disease’ showed an increase in activated partial thromboplastin time and prothrombin time values, and a decrease to very low levels of plasma fibrinogen when compared to healthy controls. Together with a marked thrombocytopenia, these results present firm evidence of consumptive coagulopathy with disseminated intravascular coagulation in diseased fish. When the control pen was retested after 4 weeks, a consumptive coagulopathy was evident also in this group of fish. The fact that this pen came down with ‘Hitra disease’ about 8 weeks later strongly supports our hypothesis that DIG is a basic pathologic process in this disease.