Coagulation and Fibrinolysis in CSF

Abstract

Earlier, less definite global coagulation studies of CSF yielded sporadic indications both on the coagulation-promoting and on the inhibiting effect^{94, 240}. In the light of our present knowledge attempts were made to detect some factors necessary for the endogenic and exogenic coagulation process ^{200, 287, 294} Apart from some of the thrombelastographic results obtained which appeared to promote coagulation ¹⁰¹, the results obtained regarding the activities of the clotting factors remained contradictory. No difference was noted between normal, inflammatorily changed and blood-stained CSF. All the analyses referred to CSF, without more precise indications.