Population
Patients with congestive cardiac failure, control patients with heart disease but not in failure, and…
Design
Cross-sectional
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Heart failure-associated fibrinolytic changes may influence thrombotic risk; cross-sectional data leave open causality and need for prospective trials.
Congestive cardiac failure is associated with specific alterations in the blood fibrinolytic system, including decreased plasminogen activator and increased inhibitors, which may affect thrombotic risk.
Rawles et al. (1973) studied this question.
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