BLOOD FIBRIN IN UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT OBSTRUCTION

Open Access

1 March 1927

journal article
research article
Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Vol. 45 (3) , 427-431
https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.45.3.427

Abstract

After high gastrointestinal tract obstruction the blood fibrin increases rapidly. The change is more marked in animals with obstruction of the cardiac end of the stomach. The rise in fibrin parallels closely the toxemia characteristic of such conditions. These results indicate that liver insufficiency cannot be the cause of death in such obstructions.