[Importance of Innerfield's serum test in the diagnosis of prethrombotic and thrombotic states in various cardiovascular diseases].

To appraise the diagnostic significance of Innerfield's serum test, 40 patients with ischemic heart disease were examined; 18 of them had angina pectoris, 22 myocardial infarction, in the acute of subacute stage, 15 hypertensive disease, and 27 patients had rheumatic heart disease. It is shown that the blood fibrinolytic system was depressed in most patients. A shorter serum test time was characteristic of these diseases when their course was complicated by thromboembolism. With due consideration for the data on the state of the blood coagulation and anticoagulation systems, the serum test may be used for identifying the prethrombotic condition in patients with various cardiovascular diseases.