The intravenous injection of horse serum, kept for 2 hours at 38 degrees C. in the presence of one-fifth of its volume of a suspension of 0.5 per cent agar in physiological salt solution and then separated from the agar by centrifugalization and filtration, produces in normal rabbits in adequate doses a considerable and prolonged fall in the blood pressure, expulsion of feces, a diminished coag...

58-year-old Hispanic female presented with an altered mental status. A CT scan of the head demonstrated multiple scattered infarcts and a large right temporal lobe infarct. We also diagnosed the patient with right popliteal and femoral vein thrombosis, bilateral pulmonary embolism, and a transient right radial artery occlusion. Her 12-lead EKG showed lateral ST elevation. Emergent coronary angi...

Pregnancy is a time of immense physiological and immunological change. Perhaps no organ system undergoes more adaptations then the cardiovascular. Increased cardiac output, increased intravascular volume, hyper coagulability, and decreased systemic vascular resistance, are four essential alterations [1]. Additionally, a rise in pulse rate of ten to twenty beats per minute is usually seen. Furth...

The Sonoclot, a simple viscoelastometer, measures changes in the viscoelastic properties of plasma as it is recalcified. Platelet rich plasma (PRP) and platelet poor plasma (PPP) each have characteristic Sonoclot tracings. This technique was applied to evaluate the coagulability and platelet function, specifically, in PRP prepared from 53 normal term newborn cord bloods and whole blood from 17 ...

A study of blood coagulation was made on cardiac patients with and without acute myocardial infarction, prior to anticoagulant therapy. The heparin clotting time, an in vitro modification of the heparin tolerance test, was accelerated in 74 per cent (14 out of 19) of the patients with acute myocardial infarction studied within three weeks after the attack. One out of 14 patients without acute m...

Exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) commonly occurs in race horses. Thromboelastometry (TEM) investigates the whole hemostatic process by evaluating the viscoelastic properties of the blood clot from its formation to fibrinolysis. The aim of this study was to assess whether horses with EIPH have abnormal thromboelastometric profiles. Intrinsic and extrinsic pathways, fibrinogen activit...

Acute necrotizing pancreatitis is still a fatal disease. Pancreatic necrosis might be, in part, a result of infarction due to ischemia with vasospasm and an increase in intravascular coagulability. Synthetic antiproteases have a broad inhibitory action on pancreatic enzymes, the coagulation system, the complement system and the production of proinflammatory cytokines. Therefore, antiproteases h...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The presence of hemocoagulative disorders in acute ischemic stroke has been reported occasionally. However, the cause of the hemostatic derangement has not been fully elucidated. CASE DESCRIPTION A 66-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and myocardial infarction developed pure motor hemiparesis. On admission, she was thought to have a lacunar infarction. Howev...