Postoperative changes in platelet adhesiveness

Postoperative changes in platelet adhesiveness.

Platelet adhesiveness was measured in patients undergoing operation. With the rotating bulb technique adhesiveness increased steadily to the sixth and ninth days following surgery. The glass bead filter technique demonstrated a marked increase in platelet adhesiveness on the day following operation.

Platelet adhesiveness.

Platelet Adhesiveness

By MURRAY WEINER, M.D., KURT ZELTMACHER, M.D., CARL REICH, M.D., AND SHEPARD SHAPIRO, M.D. I N 1941, Helen Wright’ described a method for estimating the adhesive quality of platelets. Confirmation of the original findings by Spooner and Meyer’ established the procedure as a means of distinguishing this property of platelets. It is the purpose of the present report to evaluate the usefulness of ...

Platelet adhesiveness in diabetes mellitus.

Platelet adhesiveness has been assessed on whole blood from a series of 34 diabetics and 50 control subjects using adenosine diphosphate (A.D.P.) and by adherence to glass microspherules (ballotini). Using both techniques it was possible to demonstrate a significant increase in platelet adhesiveness in the diabetic patients.

Platelet adhesiveness: the effect of centrifugation on the measurement of adhesiveness in platelet-rich plasma.

Platelet adhesiveness has been measured in citrated whole blood and in platelet-rich plasma obtained from normal subjects, splenectomized patients, and from patients in whom the diagnosis of recurrent venous thrombosis had been made. The duration of centrifugation used in the preparation of platelet-rich plasma was found to have a profound effect on the measurement of platelet adhesiveness beca...