Objective: Introduction: Some coagulation and thrombotic disorders during severe CAP could lead to some intravascular disorders and even be the reason of lethal end in hospitalized patients with CAP. But this fact hadn't been established to the end yet. The aim was to study the intravascular changes in patients with severe CAP and to estimate the role of parameters of systemic inflammation (procalcitonin (PCT), C-reactive protein (CRP)), blood coagulation test (fibrinogen, D-dimer, heparin time, prothrombin time) and risk of thrombosis in patients with moderate and severe CAP.
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