[Disseminated intravascular coagulation in myocardial infarct].

In patients with angina pectoris and acute myocardial infarction different signs of disseminated intravascular coagulation were found, their intensity depending on the severity of the clinical course. In myocardial infarction with a complicated course and, especially, in shock signs of disseminated intravascular microthrombus formation were revealed, its criteria including, according to the author's data, reduced platelets count, factor V activity, shortening of platelets life and period of labelled fibrinogen circulation, appearance of large quantities of the fibrin-monomer complex.