The role of platelets in the coagulopathy of heatstroke - A study of platelet aggregation in heatstroke patients during the pilgrimage (Haj) to Makkah

Platelets

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-42

  Al Mashhadani, S A ^a   Gader, A M A ^a   Al Harthi, S ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADRENALIN; ARACHIDONIC ACID; COLLAGEN; RISTOCETIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HEAT STROKE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOSLEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRAVEL;

EID: 0030887788     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537109777528     Document Type: Article

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