Effect of increasing serum albumin on haemostatic factors synthesized in the liver in CAPD patients

of fibrinogen, and possibly factor VII, in CAPD patients. Background. This study was performed to evaluate the relationship between serum albumin and plasma Key words: albumin, CAPD, factor VII, fibrinogen concentration of haemostatic factors and the eVect of raising serum albumin on haemostatic factors synthesized in the liver in CAPD patients. Methods. We measured blood levels of albumin, fib- Introduction rinogen, factor II, factor VII, protein C, free protein S, plasminogen, a2-antiplasmin and antithrombin III Hypoalbuminaemia, a major adverse prognostic factor in 103 CAPD patients and 30 normal controls. Twenty- in dialysis patients, is known to be strongly associated two patients with albumin