[The interrelation between lung function disorders and deviations in the blood coagulation system]

With the purpose of establishing the degree of interrelationship between the lung function disorders and deviations from the norm in the blood coagulation system, 102 complex studies were made into the system of coagulation of blood in mixed venous blood as well as 36 studies on arterial blood of patients after abdominal hemorrhage. The patients with pneumonia developed syndrome of disseminated intravascular blood coagulation and/or its aggravation, which syndrome ran a course of hypocoagulatory type with increased activity of platelets towards aggregation. While analysing the arteriovenous difference for blood coagulation parameters a conclusion was drawn to the effect that the main cause of hemostasiologic changes is an inflammatory process rather than failure of non-expiratory functions of the lungs.