BASIC VALUES OF BLOOD-COAGULATION PARAMET ERS IN PIGS (SUS SCROFA DOMESTICUS)

On 23 clinical healthy pigs (2-4 months of age, body weight 13-42 kg) under ketamin-pentobarbital anaesthesia blood plasma coagulation param eters have been investigated. To obtain basic values 26 parameters wer e measured: number of thrombocytes, parameters of thrombelastogram and resonance-thrombogram, prothrombin time, activated partial thrombopla stin time, thrombin time, reptilase time, factors I, II, V, Vn, VIII, X, antithrombin III, plasminogen, alpha(1)-antitrypsin, alpha(2)-antip lasmin, alpha(2)-macroglobulin, fibrin degradation products D and E an d euglobulin lysistime. Parameters calculated in percent should be mea sured against a pig plasma pool. Measurement against a human plasma po ol are hardly valid in values higher than 100%. In comparison to man t he results indicate modifications of fibrinogenesis and fibrinolysis i n pigs.