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==Overview==
==Overview==
The exact [[pathogenesis]] of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is not fully understood. It is thought that TTP is caused by the [[deficiency]] of a [[plasma]] [[Metalloproteinase|metalloprotease]], [[ADAMTS13]].
== Pathophysiology ==
== Pathophysiology ==
===Idiopathic TTP===
* The exact [[pathogenesis]] of TTP is not completely understood.<ref name="pmid20058209">{{cite journal |vauthors=Tsai HM |title=Pathophysiology of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura |journal=Int. J. Hematol. |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=1–19 |date=January 2010 |pmid=20058209 |pmc=3159000 |doi=10.1007/s12185-009-0476-1 |url=}}</ref>
The ''[[idiopathic]]'' form of TTP was recently linked to the inhibition of the [[enzyme]] ADAMTS13 by [[antibody|antibodies]], rendering TTP as an [[autoimmune disease]]. [[von Willebrand factor]] (vWF) is a protein that links platelets, [[blood clot]]s, and the blood vessel wall in the process of blood [[coagulation]]. ADAMTS13 is a proteinase responsible for the breakdown of VWF; very large VWF molecules are prone to coagulationWithout proper cleavage of VWF by ADAMTS13, these unusually large VWF cause coagulation at a higher rate, especially in the part of the circulatory system where VWF is most active due to high shear stress - in the microvascualture, thereby causing thrombi.
* It is understood that TTP is caused by either [[deficiency]] of a [[plasma]] [[Metalloproteinase|metalloprotease]], [[ADAMTS13]]( ('''A''' '''D'''isintegrin '''A'''nd [[Metalloproteinase|'''M'''etalloprotease]] with a '''T'''hrombo'''S'''pondin type 1 motif, member '''13''').
* [[ADAMTS13]] is member of human family the ADAMTS.<ref name="pmid15554875">{{cite journal |vauthors=Porter S, Clark IM, Kevorkian L, Edwards DR |title=The ADAMTS metalloproteinases |journal=Biochem. J. |volume=386 |issue=Pt 1 |pages=15–27 |date=February 2005 |pmid=15554875 |pmc=1134762 |doi=10.1042/BJ20040424 |url=}}</ref>
* [[ADAMTS13]] is  a [[plasma]] reprolysin-like [[Metalloproteinase|metalloprotease]] divides [[Von Willebrand factor|von Willebrand factor (VWF)]].<ref name="pmid23809107">{{cite journal |vauthors=Zheng XL |title=Structure-function and regulation of ADAMTS-13 protease |journal=J. Thromb. Haemost. |volume=11 Suppl 1 |issue= |pages=11–23 |date=June 2013 |pmid=23809107 |pmc=3713533 |doi=10.1111/jth.12221 |url=}}</ref>
* The [[von Willebrand factor]] ([[Von Willebrand factor|VWF]]) is produced by the [[endothelial]] [[Cell (biology)|cells]] as an [[Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene|ultra-high-molecular-weight multimers]]. Normally, [[VWF]] is sliced by a [[plasma]] [[metalloproteinase]] called [[ADAMTS13]] into smaller multimers. When the [[Activity (chemistry)|activity]] or the [[Amount of substance|amount]] of the [[protease]] is not enough, the [[Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene|ultra-high-molecular-weight multimers]] of [[Von Willebrand factor|VWF]] commence [[platelet]] [[aggregation]] and [[Thrombosis|thrombosi]]<nowiki/>s in small [[vessels]].<ref name="pmid20058209" />
* [[Autoantibodies]] against the [[von Willebrand factor]] ([[VWF]]) cleaving [[Metalloproteinase|metalloprotease]] [[ADAMTS13|ADAMTS-13]]. Severe [[deficiency]] of [[plasma]] [[ADAMTS13|ADAMTS-13]] activity with or without detectable [[inhibitory]] [[Autoantibody|autoantibodies]] against [[ADAMTS13|ADAMTS-13]] supports the [[diagnosis]] of [[TTP]].
* [[Deficiency]] of [[ADAMTS13]] is caused by [[gene]] [[Mutation|mutations]] or [[Acquired disorder|acquired]]. [[Autoantibody|Autoantibodies]] is main to the [[pathophysiology]] of TTP. Ultra-large [[VWF]] [[Multimeric protein|multimers]] are breaking down by [[ADAMTS13]] [[enzyme]] .
* In [[ADAMTS13]] [[deficiency]], large [[Von willebrand factor a domain containing 7|von willebrand factor]] ([[VWF]]) [[Multimeric protein|multimers]] collect leading to [[platelet]] [[aggregation]], [[hemolysis]] and microthrombi formation. [[Organ (anatomy)|Organs]] are damaged by microthrombi that  it cause [[ischemia]] is leading to damage to end [[organs]].
* The most common [[organs]] being damaged are [[central nervous system]] ([[CNS]]) and [[Kidney|kidneys]].
* [[Thrombocytopenia]] results from [[platelet]] [[Consumption coagulopathy|consumption]] during [[thrombus]] formation.
* [[Anemia]] results from [[hemolytic]] destruction of [[red blood cells]] as they pass through small [[Blood vessel|vessels]] that are partially occluded by [[thrombi]].
== Genetics ==
[[Gene|Genes]] involved in the [[pathogenesis]] of TTP include:<ref name="pmid28678087">{{cite journal |vauthors=Conboy E, Partain PI, Warad D, Kluge ML, Arndt C, Chen D, Rodriguez V |title=A Severe Case of Congenital Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Purpura Resulting From Compound Heterozygosity Involving a Novel ADAMTS13 Pathogenic Variant |journal=J. Pediatr. Hematol. Oncol. |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=60–62 |date=January 2018 |pmid=28678087 |doi=10.1097/MPH.0000000000000895 |url=}}</ref>
 
*[[Mutation|Mutations]] in the [[ADAMTS13]] [[gene]].


In idiopathic TTP, severely decreased (<5% of normal) ADAMTS13 activity can be detected in most (80%) patients, and inhibitors are often found in this subgroup (44-56%). The relationship of reduced [[ADAMTS13]]  to the pathogenesis of TTP is known as the Furlan-Tsai hypothesis, after the two independent researchers who published their research in the same issue of the [[New England Journal of Medicine]] in 1998.<ref name="pmid9828253">{{cite journal |author=Moake JL |title=Moschcowitz, multimers, and metalloprotease |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=339 |issue=22 |pages=1629–31 |year=1998 |pmid=9828253 |doi=}}</ref><ref name="pmid9828245">{{cite journal |author=Furlan M, Robles R, Galbusera M, ''et al'' |title=von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and the hemolytic-uremic syndrome |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=339 |issue=22 |pages=1578–84 |year=1998 |pmid=9828245 |doi=}}</ref><ref name="pmid9828246">{{cite journal |author=Tsai HM, Lian EC |title=Antibodies to von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease in acute thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=339 |issue=22 |pages=1585–94 |year=1998 |pmid=9828246 |doi=}}</ref> This theory is seen as insufficient to explain the etiology of TTP, since many patients with a hereditary lack of [[ADAMTS13]] activity do not manifest clinical symptoms of TTP.
*The development of TTP is the result of [[inherited]] [[ADAMTS13]] [[deficiency]] but mild [[phenotype]] with increased [[von Willebrand factor]] level. Upshaw–Schulman [[syndrome]] is [[Heredity|hereditary]]  of TTP.
*Among some patients with severe, [[Heredity|hereditary]] [[ADAMTS13]] [[deficiency]] do not have signs or [[Symptom|symptoms]] of TTP until their adulthoods .<ref name="pmid21781265">{{cite journal |vauthors=Fujimura Y, Matsumoto M, Isonishi A, Yagi H, Kokame K, Soejima K, Murata M, Miyata T |title=Natural history of Upshaw-Schulman syndrome based on ADAMTS13 gene analysis in Japan |journal=J. Thromb. Haemost. |volume=9 Suppl 1 |issue= |pages=283–301 |date=July 2011 |pmid=21781265 |doi=10.1111/j.1538-7836.2011.04341.x |url=}}</ref>


Congenital or acquired ADAMTS13 deficiency causes TTP; acute TTP in adults is usually due to an acquired atuoantibody to ADAMTS13. However, as stated before, cases of plasma exchange-responsive acute TTP have been reported in patients who have no evidence of an autoantibody to ADAMTS13 and patients with congenital ADAMTS13 deficiency may not manifest TTP until adulthood.  Autoantibodies against ADAMTS13 present in a majority of patients with idiopathic TTP and, additionally, ticlopidine and clopidogrel associated TTP.  Severe deficiency of ADAMTS13 activity (<5%) is a specific feature of TTP.  Normal levels of ADAMTS13 do NOT rule out the diagnosis of TTP.  Normally there is only a slight increase in D-dimers, FDP and thrombin-antithrombin complexes in acute TTP.  Secondary DIC may arise due to prolonged tissue ischemia and is an ominous prognostic sign. 
==Microscopic Pathology==
On microscopic [[Histopathological|histopathologica]]<nowiki/>l analysis findings of [[Hemolytic-uremic syndrome|TTP]] include:
*Granular (muddy brown) casts
*Characteristic fibrin thrombi in glomerular and interstitial capillaries
*Slough into [[tubular]] [[lumen]]


===Secondary TTP===
<nowiki/>[[File:Acute thrombotic microangiopathy - pas - high mag.jpg|300px|thumb|none| High magnification microscopy of HUS Source:By Nephron [CC BY-SA 3.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons]]
The mechanism of ''secondary'' TTP is poorly understood, as ADAMTS13 activity is generally not as depressed as in idiopathic TTP, and inhibitors cannot be detected. The probable etiology may involve, at least in some cases, endothelial damage.
A small fraction of patients treated for arterial thrombosis with the platelet P2Y12 adenosine diphosphate receptor inhibiting thienopyridine drugs ticopidine (Ticlid) or clopidogrel (Plavix) develop TTP within a few weeks after the initiation of treatment. Autoantibodies that inhibit plasma ADAMTS13 have been demonstrated in a few patients with Ticlid-associated or Plavix-associated TTP, indicating a possible immune dysregulation induced by these similar thienpyridine compounds. Ticlodipine-associated TTP may respond to drug withdrawal and plasma exchange whereas TTP-like syndromes occuring after transplantation (often in associated with cyclosporine or FK506) are less likely to be responsive to plasma exchange treatment.


===Upshaw-Schulman syndrome===
A hereditary form of TTP is called the ''Upshaw-Schulman syndrome''; this is generally due to inherited deficiency of ADAMTS13 (frameshift and point mutations). Patients with this inherited ADAMTS13 deficiency have a surprisingly mild phenotype, but develop TTP in clinical situations with increased [[von Willebrand factor]] levels, e.g. infection. Reportedly, 5-10% of all TTP cases are due to Upshaw-Schulman syndrome.
==References==
==References==
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sogand Goudarzi, MD [2]

Overview

The exact pathogenesis of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is not fully understood. It is thought that TTP is caused by the deficiency of a plasma metalloprotease, ADAMTS13.

Pathophysiology

Genetics

Genes involved in the pathogenesis of TTP include:[4]

Microscopic Pathology

On microscopic histopathological analysis findings of TTP include:

  • Granular (muddy brown) casts
  • Characteristic fibrin thrombi in glomerular and interstitial capillaries
  • Slough into tubular lumen
High magnification microscopy of HUS Source:By Nephron [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Tsai HM (January 2010). "Pathophysiology of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura". Int. J. Hematol. 91 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1007/s12185-009-0476-1. PMC 3159000. PMID 20058209.
  2. Porter S, Clark IM, Kevorkian L, Edwards DR (February 2005). "The ADAMTS metalloproteinases". Biochem. J. 386 (Pt 1): 15–27. doi:10.1042/BJ20040424. PMC 1134762. PMID 15554875.
  3. Zheng XL (June 2013). "Structure-function and regulation of ADAMTS-13 protease". J. Thromb. Haemost. 11 Suppl 1: 11–23. doi:10.1111/jth.12221. PMC 3713533. PMID 23809107.
  4. Conboy E, Partain PI, Warad D, Kluge ML, Arndt C, Chen D, Rodriguez V (January 2018). "A Severe Case of Congenital Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Purpura Resulting From Compound Heterozygosity Involving a Novel ADAMTS13 Pathogenic Variant". J. Pediatr. Hematol. Oncol. 40 (1): 60–62. doi:10.1097/MPH.0000000000000895. PMID 28678087.
  5. Fujimura Y, Matsumoto M, Isonishi A, Yagi H, Kokame K, Soejima K, Murata M, Miyata T (July 2011). "Natural history of Upshaw-Schulman syndrome based on ADAMTS13 gene analysis in Japan". J. Thromb. Haemost. 9 Suppl 1: 283–301. doi:10.1111/j.1538-7836.2011.04341.x. PMID 21781265.

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