[Complications of closed chest injuries].

The role of predisposing factors in the development of complications in 1533 patients with closed traumas of the chest was studied as well as the dynamics of the state of the system of humoral regulation of microcirculation. The factors predisposing to the development of complications are the age older than 40, hospitalization later than 1 day from the trauma, double fractures of the ribs, injuries of lungs, hemothorax, concomitant diseases. In all the patients there was a subacute syndrome of disseminated intravascular coagulation, activation of the Kallikrein-Kinin system and inhibition of the complement system.