Postoperative hypercoagulable state followed by hyperfibrinolysis related to wound healing after hepatic resection.

Abstract

These findings indicate that immediately after operation the stress of hepatic resection led to extensive hypercoagulation and hypofibrinolytic activity, as compared with colorectal resection, and suggest that fibrinolysis without hypercoagulation in the late postoperative period might be caused by local fibrinolysis in the healing wound.