Plasma Fibrinogen Levels and the Clinical Course of Acute Myocardial Infarction

Myers L. : Blood fibrinogen in myocardial infarction. Arch Intern Med 82:419, 1948.

Losner S. , Volk BW and Wilensky ND : Fibrinogen concentration in acute myocardial infarction. Arch Intern Med 93:231, 1954.

Fulton RM , Duckett K. : Plasma fibrinogen and thromboembolism after myocardial infarction . Lancet 11:1161, 1976.

Sharma SC and Seth HN : Platelet adhesiveness, plasma fibrinogen and fibrinolytic activity in acute myocardial infarction. Br Heart J 40:526, 1978.

Gidron E. , Magelit R. , Oliven A. and Shalitin Y. : Effects of myocaridal infarction on components of fibrinolytic system . Br Heart J 39:19, 1977.

Goodnight SH , Rapaport SI and Zivelin A. : Fibrinogen levels after inflammation or endotoxin in normal and hypophysectomised rats. Am J Physiol 228:1575, 1975.

Innes D. and Sevitt S. : Coagulation and fibrinolysis in injured patients. J Clin Pathol 17:1, 1964.

Everett MR : Medical Biochemistry, Second Edition. New York , Paul Bottoeber Inc., 1946, p. 70.

Dormandy JA : Role of fibrinogen in peripheral circulatory disease. In: International Conference on Atherosclerosis, ed. by Carlson LA , et al. New York, Raven Press, 1978, p. 409.

Dormany JA , Hoon E. , Khatabb AM , et al: Prognostic significance of rheological and biochemical findings in patients with intermittent claudication. Br Med J 4:581, 1973.

Marcel GA : Red cell deformity: Phsyiological, clinical and pharmacological aspects . J Med 10:409, 1979.

Cristal N. , Peterburg F. and Shahar J. : Atrial fibrillation in acute myocardial infarction. Chest 70:8, 1976.

Thorp J. , Horsfell Stone M. : A new sensitive micronephelometer. Med Biol Beng 5:51, 1967.

Cotton RC , Bloor K. and Archibald G. : Interrelationships between platelet response to adenosine diphosphate, blood coagulation and serum lipids in patients with peripheral occlusive atherosclerosis . Atherosclerosis 16:337, 1972.

Eastham RD and Morgan FN : Plasma fibrinogen levels in coronary artery disease. Lancet 2:1196, 1963.

Lengsjen PH and Inmon TW : Haemorheologic observations in acute myocardial infarction. Angiology 19:247, 1968.

Cristal N. , Slonim A. , Hogey Z. , et al: Plasma fibrinogen levels as an indicator of myocardial necrosis . J Roy Coll Phys 16:57, 1982.

Harker LA and Schlichter SJ : Platelet and fibrinogen consumption in man. N Engl J Med 287:999, 1972.

Wardle CW , Piercy DA and Anderson J. : Some chemical indices of diabetic vascular disease. Postgrad Med J 49:19, 1973.

Hart A. , Cohen H. and Thorp JM : Effect of clofibrate in lowering plasma fibrinogen and lipoproteins in diabetic patients with vascular complications. 12th Int Congress Internal Med, Karger- Basel , 1974, p. 106.

Ogston CM and Ogston D. : Plasma fibrinogen and plasminogen level in health and ischemic heart disease . J Clin Pathol 19:352, 1966.

McDonald S. and Edgill M. : Changes in coagulability of the blood in various phases of ischaemic heart disease. Lancet 1:1115, 1959.

Cristal N. , Slonim A. and Alexander I. : Study on the factors affecting viscosity in coronary patients. VIII World Congress of Cardiology, Tokyo, 1978.

Pola P. and Savi L. : Fibrinogenaemia determined immunonephelometrically as a possible parameter in the evaluation of peripheral atherosclerotic arteriopathy. Atherosclerosis 29:205, 1978.

Pilgrim LO : Abnormalities in clotting and thrombolysis as a risk factor for stroke . Thromb Diath Haemorrh 31:264, 1974.

Chien S. : The Red Blood Cell. Academic Press, New York, 1975.

Merrill EW , Cheng CS and Pelliteer GN : Yield stress of normal human blood as a function of endogenous fibrinogen . J Appl Physiol 26:13, 1969.