Erythrocyte equidistance and heavy metals in the pathogenesis of disseminated intravascular coagulation in myocardial infarct patients at the hospital rehabilitation stage

: Blood levels of fibrin degradation products and free haemoglobin were studied in 108 inpatients with acute transmural myocardial infarction in the period of rehabilitation. At the same time contents of cadmium, vanadium, lead and nickel in blood cells and plasma were determined spectrographically. It was established that heavy metals take part in activation of blood clotting and haemolysis which decrease equidistance and accelerates sedimentation of erythrocytes.