The results of the treatment of the syndrome of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) in 41 patients with liver cirrhosis are reported. A relation between the severity of the liver impairment and the degree of the increase of the fibrin split products (FSP) was established. FSP above 100 micrograms/ml were found in patients with III class liver failure according to Child-Turcotte-Pugh and rating above 6.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe results are compared from the platelet count in blood via chamber method with phase contrast and via electronic method with "Thrombocounter C". The reproducibility was studied in a series in the low, referent and high region. The electronic-automatic method gives a better reproducibility than the chamber method in all three regions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn connection with the implementation of new methods and apparatuses for the determination of hemoglobin, hematocrit, erythrocytes, MCV, MCH, MCHC and leukocytes, the reproducibility was studied in series, compared with the arithmetical means and standard deviations and correlation analysis of the results was performed. Manual and automated, to various degrees, investigation methods were used. The reproducibility in hemoglobin determination was very good, with no significant differences between the means of the different methodical variants.
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