Can activation of coagulation and impairment of fibrinolysis in patients with anxiety and depression be reversed after improvement of psychiatric symptoms?: Results of a pilot study

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 200, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 721-723

  Geiser, Franziska ^a   Gessler, Katharina ^a   Conrad, Rupert ^a   Imbierowicz, Katrin ^a   Albus, Christian ^b   Harbrecht, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; coagulation; depression; fibrinolysis; psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FACTOR VII; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PLASMINOGEN INACTIVATORS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864883941     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182613fa5     Document Type: Article

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