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. 2023 Jan 2;222:85–95. doi: 10.1016/j.thromres.2022.12.019

Table 5.

Values of aTGA parameters in patients according to the occurrence of any thrombotic event diagnosed during hospital stay.

AUC: area under the receiver operating characteristic curve. OR: odds ratio.


Thrombotic event during hospital stay



THROMBIN GENERATION ASSAY TGA, parameters No, N=170a Yes, N=9a Pb AUC OR, 95 % C.I. pc
Without thrombomodulin, TM-
Lag time (LT_TM-), min. 4.0 (2.4) 4.3 (1.7) 0.4 0.609 (0.393–0.825) 1.05 (0.98, 1.27) 0.7
 Normalised LT_TM- 1.9 (1.2) 2.1 (0.8) 0.5 0.590 (0.349–0.831) 1.08 (0.43, 1.59) 0.8
Velocity index (V_TM-), nmol.min.−1 191.9 (120.8) 236.7 (151.8) 0.4 0.592 (0.266–0.918) 1.00 (1.00, 1.01) 0.4
 Normalised V_TM- 178.2 (113.0)) 211.6 (128.3) 0.5 0.591 (0.268–0.914) 1.00 (1.00, 1.01) 0.6
Thrombin peak height (PH_TM-), nmol.L−1 275.8 (102.4) 319.2(142.6) 0.3 0.627 (0.291–0.963) 1.00 (1.00,1.01) 0.3
 Normalised PH_TM- 131.7 (49.8) 148.8 (64.3) 0.3 0.626 (0.288–0.965 1.01 (0.99, 1.02) 0.4
Time to peak (TTP_TM-), min. 6.2 (3.1) 6.5 (2.5) 0.9 0.479 (0.210–0.748) 1.03 (0.71, 1.20) 0.8
 Normalised TTP_TM- 1.4(0.7) 1.5(0.6) 0.9 0.492 (0.218–0.765) 1.11 (0.23, 2.16) 0.8
Start tail (ST_TM-), min. 19.7 (6.3) 19.7 (6.3) 0.9 0.519 (0.232–0.806) 1.00 (0.84, 1.10) > 0.9
 Normalised ST_TM- 1.0 (0.3) 1.1(0.4) 0.8 0.530 (0.236–0.823) 1.11 (0.004, 5.85) > 0.9
Endogenous thrombin potential (ETP_TM-), nmol.min. 1416.5 (392.6) 1541.7 (392.5) 0.3 0.620 (0.359–0.880) 1.00 (1.00, 1.00) 0.4
 Normalised ETP_TM- 109.5 (30.6) 118.1 (28.3) 0.4 0.611 (0.354–0.868) 0.01 (0.98, 1.04) 0.5



With thrombomodulin, TM+
Lag time (LT_TM+), min. 4.6 (2.2) 6.2 (3.5) 0.2 0.651 (0.407–0.894) 1.11 (0.89, 1.33) 0.3
Velocity index (V_TM+), nmol.min.−1 175.7 (127.9) 196.2 (156.2) 0.7 0.550 (0.215–0.886) 1.00 (1.00, 1.01) 0.3
Thrombin peak height (PH_TM+), nmol.L−1 215.7 (112.3) 230.6 (163.9) 0.6 0.558 (0.218–0.898) 1.00 (1.00, 1.01) 0.5
Time to peak (TTP_TM+), min. 6.4 (2.5) 8.4 (4.5) 0.4 0.613 (0.355–0.871) 1.08 (0.89, 1.26) 0.4
Start tail (ST_TM+), min. 16.0 (2.8) 18.8 (4.7) 0.11 0.694 (0.44–0.944) 1.07 (0.90, 1.23) 0.4
Endogenous thrombin potential (ETP_TM+), nmol.min. 871.8 (418.2) 949.9 (678.4) 0.6 0.556 (0.210–0.902) 1.00 (1.00, 1.00) 0.6



Thrombomodulin effect on TGA
(ETP_TM+: ETP_TM-) ratio 0.6 (0.2) 0.6 (0.4) >0.9 0.515 (0.172–0.858) 0.64 (0.02–26.6) 0.8
a

Mean (SD).

b

Wilcoxon rank sum test.

c

Wald test for OR = 1.