TY - JOUR ID - TI - Plasma fibrinogen and D-dimer in patients with acute myocardial infarction AU - Muna A. Kashmoola منى كشمولة PY - 2005 VL - 31 IS - 2 SP - 70 EP - 73 JO - Annals of the College of Medicine Mosul مجلة طب الموصل SN - 00271446 23096217 AB - Objectives: To investigate the plasma fibrinogen level and D-dimer reaction in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) together with other haematological parameters.
Design: A prospective clinico-haematological study.
Setting: Intensive coronary care unit in Ibn-Sina teaching hospital in Mosul during a period of 4 months from October 2004.
Participants: Forty patients with acute myocardial infarction together with a control group of 40 subjects.
Main outcome measures: Basic haematological parameters, plasma fibinogen level and plasma D-dimer reaction tests. Biochemical tests including cardiac enzymes measurement as creatine kinase (CK) and asparate transaminase (AST) were performed.
Results: Plasma fibrinogen level, white blood cell count and neutrophils count were significantly higher in patients compared to control group with P values (<0.05) (<0.01) and (<0.05) respectively. Positive plasma D-dimer reaction was significantly more frequent in patients than in control group (p<0.05). High plasma fibrinogen level and positive plasma D-dimer reaction were seen in those with worse outcome with p-value (<0.05), (<0.05) respectively. Plasma fibrinogen was significantly higher in those with extensive infarction compared to others (p<0.05).
Conclusion: High plasma fibrinogen and positive plasma D-dimer reaction were more frequently seen in patients with complicated course of myocardial infarction.

Key words: Fibrinogen, D-dimer, acute myocardial infarction.

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