[Disorders in the status of the vessel-thrombocyte and plasma links of the hemostatic system in the pathogenesis of disseminated intravascular coagulation in ischemic heart disease]

Abstract

Platelet/vascular and plasma elements of hemostasis were investigated in normal subjects and coronary patients under stimulated emotional stress, following the assessment of vascular wall antithrombogenic properties on the basis of evidence from short-term local vascular ischemia (the cuff test). In normal subjects, vascular wall antithrombotic properties remained unchanged, providing a sufficient anticoagulant and thrombolytic support under emotional stress and thereby protecting the body against thrombosis. Coronary patients showed depressed vascular-wall antiaggregant, anticoagulant and fibrinolytic activity and latent disseminated intravascular microcoagulation that tended to progress under mental stress, creating a risk of intravascular thrombosis.