[beta-Thromboglobulin in plasma in patients with heart-valve diseases and with prosthetic heart valves (author's transl)].
In each 50 patients with rheumatic heart valve diseases and after implantation of prosthetic heart valves and in 20 patients with bioprostheses, beta-thromboglobulin (beta-TG) in plasma was determined. In all cases beta-TG was significantly elevated above the normal range. The levels of beta-TG lay in patients with bioprostheses lower than in the other groups. Bioprostheses are less damaging the thrombocytes than prosthetic heart valves.
D001609:Beta-Globulins / Q000032:analysis*; D001705:Bioprosthesis; D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000502:physiology; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D012214:Rheumatic Heart Disease / Q000097:blood* / Q000601:surgery
D001609:Beta-Globulins
beta-Tromboglobnulin im Plasma bei Herzklappenfehlern und nach Herzklappenersatz.