Intravascular Haemolysis, Platelet Consumption and Platelet Adhesiveness in Patients with Prosthetic Heart Valves
- 1 January 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Vol. 5 (1), 13-15
- https://doi.org/10.3109/14017437109131945
Abstract
Patients with increased haemolysis following insertion of heart valve prostheses showed a significantly increased platelet consumption and a marked decrease of adhesive platelets. Possibly, adhesive platelets are consumed by formation of platelet thrombi on the artificial valves. The high prevalence of thrombo-embolism in patients with ball valves might be explained by such a mechanism.Keywords
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