Fibrin detected in plasma of patients with disseminated intravascular coagulation by fibrin-specific antibodies constists primarily of high molecular weight FXIIIa-crosslinked and plasmin-modified complexes partially containing fibrinopeptide A - Pfitzner, SA; Dempfle, C-E; Matsuda, M; Heene, DL (Thromb Haemost, 1997)