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Plasma Levels of Platelet Factor 4 in Patients Admitted to a Coronary Care Unit
Author(s) -
Kutti Jack,
SafaiKutti Soodabeh,
Svärdsudd Kurt,
Swedberg Karl,
Wadenvik Hans
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of haematology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1600-0609
pISSN - 0036-553X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0609.1981.tb01651.x
Subject(s) - coronary care unit , medicine , cardiology , platelet , factor (programming language) , emergency medicine , myocardial infarction , computer science , programming language
Blood was obtained from 63 consecutive patients within a 24 h period after the admission to a coronary care unit for the determination of plasma platelet factor 4 (PF‐4) concentration. 28 of the subjects proved to have an acute myocardial infarction (MI), 24 had evidence of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) but no MI, and the remaining 11 patients had no signs of IHD. 40 healthy subjects served as controls. The mean PF‐4 value in the MI group was 10.5 ±0.8 ng/ml. The corresponding values for patients with and without IHD were 8.7 ±0.6 and 8.3 ±0.6 ng/ml, respectively. The control mean (5.4 ±0.3 ng/ml) was significantly lower (P < 0.001) than the means for all 3 groups of patients studied. The difference between the group of MI patients and patients with IHD as well as patients without IHD was only of borderline significance (0.10 > P > 0.05).