BACKGROUND Platelets and coagulation proteins contribute to the development of peripheral arterial disease, especially atherosclerotic disease. Several experimental studies have proven a significant correlation between hypercoagulability and atherosclerosis. We used dielectric blood coagulometry, which was initially designed to evaluate the coagulable status, to examine the coagulability of per...

Description is given of changes in blood coagulability found in diseases of the rabbit, including malignant tumor, spontaneous infections, non-bacterial diseases and lesions, and hemorrhagic states specifically induced. The changes involved variously the time of onset of blood coagulation, clot formation rate and the rate and extent of clot retraction.

THE occurrence of cerebral complications following blood transfusion is rare. It is difficult to assess the part playe(d by transfusion, but a likely factor is an alteration in the coagulability of the blood. A case of cerebral thrombosis following blood transfusion is described below, followed by a short review of the post-transfusion nervous complications which have been described in the. lit...