PLATELET ADHESIVENESS

Platelet adhesiveness.

Platelet Adhesiveness

By MURRAY WEINER, M.D., KURT ZELTMACHER, M.D., CARL REICH, M.D., AND SHEPARD SHAPIRO, M.D. I N 1941, Helen Wright’ described a method for estimating the adhesive quality of platelets. Confirmation of the original findings by Spooner and Meyer’ established the procedure as a means of distinguishing this property of platelets. It is the purpose of the present report to evaluate the usefulness of ...

Platelet adhesiveness after blood donation.

Platelet adhesiveness to glass was measured in healthy blood donors at the time of and eight days after donating 500 ml of blood. By a whole blood method a highly significant increase was found whereas by a method using platelet-rich plasma with added adenosine diphosphate there was only a slightly significant increase. The discrepancy suggested that changes in the red cell population might inf...

Platelet adhesiveness in diabetes mellitus.

Platelet adhesiveness has been assessed on whole blood from a series of 34 diabetics and 50 control subjects using adenosine diphosphate (A.D.P.) and by adherence to glass microspherules (ballotini). Using both techniques it was possible to demonstrate a significant increase in platelet adhesiveness in the diabetic patients.

Postoperative changes in platelet adhesiveness.

Platelet adhesiveness was measured in patients undergoing operation. With the rotating bulb technique adhesiveness increased steadily to the sixth and ninth days following surgery. The glass bead filter technique demonstrated a marked increase in platelet adhesiveness on the day following operation.