title: [Evaluation of principal risk factors, hemorheological and blood coagulation characteristics in arteriosclerosis obliterans in the elderly].
abstract: The main risk factors, whole blood filterability, platelet function tests and blood coagulation tests have been evaluated in 68 non-diabetic patients with atherosclerosis obliterans of the lower limbs (stages II and III of Fontaine classification), 34 of geriatric age and 34 of middle age, and in 44 healthy controls of middle age. No different prevalence of risk factors has been found among vasculopathic patients of both ages; platelet function tests and blood coagulation tests are overlapping in the two groups of vasculopathic patients, but they are altered in comparison to healthy controls, whereas whole blood filterability is decreased in both groups of atherosclerotic patients, but mostly in elderly subjects, in whom a therapeutic approach with hemorheological drugs seems more suitable.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001162:Arteriosclerosis Obliterans / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001777:Blood Coagulation; D005374:Filtration; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010979:Platelet Function Tests; D012212:Rheology; D012306:Risk
vernacular_title: Valutazione dei principali fattori di rischio, delle caratteristiche emoreologiche ed emocoagulative nell'aterosclerosi obliterante in età senile.