Motivation: A man with kidney failure from polycystic kidney disease abruptly bled inside his head. We blamed it on dysfunctional platelets and used desmopressin (DDAVP) to try to reverse his dysfunctional platelets. Did not work, and he herniated. Does desmopressin or other interventions really improve bleeding from dysfunctional platelets?
As way of background, chronic kidney disease increases bleeding time through dysfunction of platelet adhesion and aggregation via a variety of mechanisms including dysfunctional von Willebrand Factor (vWF), anemia, and uremic toxin accumulation.
Paper: Hedges, S.J., Dehoney, S.B., Hooper, J.S. et. al. Evidence-based treatment recommendations for uremic bleeding. Nature Clin. Prac. Neph. (2007); 3: 138-156
Methods: Systematic review of published trials.
Results:
Cryoprecipitate: Two small controlled trials evaluated cryoprecipitate infusion to replete dysfunctional vWF. In a prospective trial, seven patients with bleeding time > 15 minutes were infused 10 bags of cryoprecipitate resulting in decreased bleeding time in all patients after 4 hours. In a retrospective single center analysis, 5 patients were infused with cryoprecipitate resulting in decreased bleeding time in 2 patients and no effect in three others.
Desmopressin (DDAVP): In the one randomized trial with patients on hemodialysis with bleeding time > 15 minutes, one dose of 0.4 ug/kg of DDAVP resulted in normalization of bleeding time in two of eight patients and reduction in seven of eight patients randomized to DDAVP arm. In another prospective single center trial, one dose of 0.4 ug/kg of DDAVP resulted in normalization of bleeding time in six of twelve patients in one hour. In two hours, 3 out of 12 had normal bleeding times. After 24 hours, all patients reverted back to prolonged bleeding time. Finally, in a retrospective study, one dose of 0.3 ug/kg of DDAVP resulted in normalized bleeding time in 5/12 one hour post-infusion, 2/12 four hours post-infusion, and 1/12 eight hours post-infusion.
Estrogens: Has been tested in three randomized, placebo controlled trials. In first trial, patients received 0.6 mg/kg of IV conjugated estrogens for five days. All patients in the estrogen treated group had normalized bleeding time within six hours. In subsequent randomized trial, the dose used was again 0.6 mg/kg of IV conjugated estrogen for five days. Patients receiving estrogen had significantly decreased bleeding time at days seven and fourteen with no significant effects on day 21 and day 28. In the final trial, patients on HD were randomized to oral conjugated estrogen (50 mg) or placebo for nine days or till normalization of bleeding time. In the five patients randomized to estrogen, bleeding time normalized in 3 of 5 patients and decreased to less than 50% in remaining 2 patients. The most common adverse effect was flushing.
Discussion: For the actively bleeding patient with renal failure, dysfunctional uremic platelets can be treated successfully! In the actively bleeding patient, besides desmopressin, cryoprecipitate can also be helpful. But, perhaps more intriguingly, conjugated estrogens may be beneficial in the short term even after six hours. While desmopressin is presumed to induce secretion of Factor VIII from endothelial cells, the mechanism of estrogen is less clear - may work by decreasing NO production or decreasing Factor S concentrations. I had not really considered estrogen as part of the acute therapy. In the future, when desmopressin does not appear to stop bleeding, I will turn to cryoprecipitate and conjugated estrogens.
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