Obstetrics

Study probes mechanism of hemostasis during normal pregnancy

Published in Blood Weekly, June 16th, 2005

Counterbalancing of coagulation and fibrinolysis activation maintains hemostasis during normal pregnancy, researchers report.

Ekaterina H. Uchikova and I. Ledjev, Higher Medical Institute IP Pavlov, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, "[studied] the changes in the hemostatic variables during normal pregnancy, and [compared] them with the corresponding variables in a control group of nonpregnant women."

The study cohort comprised 35 women in weeks 35-40 of pregnancy and 35 nonpregnant women

"We examined the global tests, the variables relating to coagulation and fibrinolysis and the group of natural inhibitors of coagulation, and compared them...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2005-06-16)

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