[Age and blood coagulation characteristics in cerebral circulatory disorders]

The paper deals with the results of some indices of an extensified coagulogramme in disorders of cerebral circulation in 246 patients younger than 45 years and in 242 older than 55. In both groups, irrespective of the character of the stroke in the acute phase there was a tendency towards hypercoagulation which was more expressed in individuals up to 45 years. Besides, an increased tendency of coagulative blood properties in the acute phase, there was an earlier and significant activation of faibrinolysis in the subacute and rehabilitative period seen in the young individuals. In the elderly group an increase of fibrinolytic activity was unproportional to the increase of coagulant blood properties. This disproportion was seen in an ischemic stroke.