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Intraperitoneal coagulation in chronic liver disease ascites

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Twenty patients with the ascites of chronic liver disease were investigated for in vivo evidence of active coagulation within ascites by detection of fibrin monomer. Increased levels of fibrin monomer, increased fibrin/fibrinogen degradation products, and absent or low levels of fibrinogen in the ascites of all patients tested confirmed the presence of intraperitoneal coagulation when ascites is present.

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  1. John Hoefs MD

    Present address: Division of Gastroenterology, University of California, Irvine, 101 City Drive South, 92668, Orange, California

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  1. USC Liver Unit, University of Southern California, School of Medicine, 90242, Downey, California

    John Hoefs MD, Tom Barnes MD & Pierre Halle MD

  2. Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, 90242, Downey, California

    John Hoefs MD, Tom Barnes MD & Pierre Halle MD

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Portions of this data have been published in abstract form (Gastroenterology 76(5), part 2:1155, May 1979) and presented to the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, New Orleans, May 22, 1979.

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Hoefs, J., Barnes, T. & Halle, P. Intraperitoneal coagulation in chronic liver disease ascites. Digest Dis Sci 26, 518–522 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01308100

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