RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Fibrinolysis in colonic disease
JF Gut
JO Gut
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Society of Gastroenterology
SP 588
OP 591
DO 10.1136/gut.11.7.588
VO 11
IS 7
A1 C. H. J. Swan
A1 J. Alexander Williams
A1 W. T. Cooke
YR 1970
UL http://gut.bmj.com/content/11/7/588.abstract
AB Fibrinolytic activity of colic venous and arterial blood has been studied at laparotomy in 18 patients with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's colitis and compared with that of 17 patients with colonic carcinoma or diverticulosis. Using the dilute blood clot lysis time technique, no difference was detected between the fibrinolytic activity in colic venous blood from the two groups. When the clinical complications of bleeding or thrombosis are compared with fibrinolytic activity the only important association is between a low peripheral venous fibrinolytic activity and the occurrence of postoperative thrombo-embolic complications.