[Reserve capacities of blood coagulation and total lytic activities in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia]

Prior to and after the double local arm hypoxia test, whole blood thromboelastography under lowered contact activation was used to examine hemostasis and total blood lytic activity in 27 males aged 59-68 years who had moderate benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) as assessed by the International Scale. The control group included 25 apparently healthy males. Only 40.7% of patients were found have adequate reserve capacities of the study systems. BPH induced tension of reserve capacities of total blood lytic activity in 37% of cases and their depletion in 22.3%, even then moderate symptoms of the disease occurred.