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[Coagulation factors and fibrinolytic system in subretinal liquid in patients with rheumatogenous retinal detachment]

I P Metelitsyna1, T N Platonova, G V Levitskaia

  • 1V. P. Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of Ukraine Academy of Medical Sciences, Odessa.

Ukrains'Kyi Biokhimichnyi Zhurnal (1999 )
|September 9, 2000
PubMed

The work deals with estimation of some factors of blood coagulation and fibrinolytic systems, which include antithrombin III, factor X, prothrombin, plasminogen, protein C concentrations in the subretinal fluid of the patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment retina. The tendency to increase of the blood coagulation and fibrinolysis factor levels, except protein C, was revealed in the patients with complicated forms of the disease. The investigations mentioned above are capable of serving as a diagnostical and forecasting test characterizing the rhegmatogenous retinal detachment retina and surgical treatment proceeding.

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