[Changes of haemostatic parameters in patients with acute cardioembolic stroke].

Haemostatic parameters: platelet aggregation, hematocrit, fibrinogen, antithrombin III, fibrinolytic activity and euglobulin lysis time, plasminogen, plasminogen activator and anti-activator activity, thrombin- antithrombin and plasmin-antiplasmin complexes and serum von Willebrand factor were studied at the most acute stage of cardioembolic stroke (1-7 days after development of neurological symptoms). State of the vascular wall was assessed using the "cuff"-test. The activation of hemostasis in patients with cardioembolic stroke was characterized by the hypercoagulation and decrease of fibrinolysis and athrombogenic potential of vessel wall properties (antiaggregation, fibrinolytic and anticoagulative).