[Hemostatic indices of oncological patients with different forms of jaundice]

Such parameters of blood coagulability as levels of antithrombin III, plasminogen, plasminogen activator and fibrinogen were compared in patients suffering cancer of different localization (51), cholelithiasis (52), mechanical jaundice of uncertain etiology (57), acute biliary pancreatitis (17), cirrhosis of the liver (39) and healthy subjects. More cases of cancer and mechanical jaundice caused by factors other than cancer showed elevated levels of antithrombin III and fewer cases--normal ones. This was matched by relatively frequent normal concentrations of plasminogen, plasminogen activator and fibrinogen and a less frequent increase in the said levels. Changes in the levels of the four parameters of hemostasis were relatively more frequent in cancer patients.