These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Factor VIII/Ag (von Willebrand) and protein C. Erythrocyte deformability and aggregability. The risk parameters of retinal vein occlusion].
    Author: Cortinovis A, Crippa A, Crippa M.
    Journal: Minerva Med; 1994 May; 85(5):211-9. PubMed ID: 8028749.
    Abstract:
    In 32 patients with retinal vein occlusion we measured coagulative and hematic parameters. The coagulative factors were in the normal range, save C-Protein, that was decreased and the Von Willebrand Factor that appeared increased in a significant way. These changes do not affect the coagulation state, but, in a local vascular district, they can interfere with mechanisms of thromboresistance, over all in the retinal district owing to its peculiar structure and its flow of terminal kind. The hemorheologic alterations consist in a decrease in the erythrocyte deformability and in an increase in the plasma-erythrocyte and plasma viscosities, measured both with a rotational method and with a filtering one. We have not found any correlation between coagulative factors and hemorheologic parameters, nevertheless these last ones determine a lowering down of the local flow, that with the morphological changes in the vascular system, give rise to conditions for an occlusion event.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]