GRADES and DEGREES of
INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION
|
Grade
|
Degree of IVC
|
Comets
|
Chain-like
Agglomeration
|
Partial Stasis
|
Clumping
|
Sedimentation in
Lumen
|
0
|
Absent
|
Absent
|
Absent
|
Absent
|
Absent
|
Absent
|
1
|
Slight
|
Some
|
Absent
|
Absent
|
Absent
|
Absent
|
2
|
Moderate
|
Many
|
Noticeable
|
Absent
|
Absent
|
Absent
|
3
|
Significant
|
-
|
Pronounced
|
Some
|
Some
|
Absent
|
4
|
Heavy
|
-
|
-
|
Noticeable in some
vessels
|
Noticeable in some
vessels
|
Absent
|
5
|
Very Heavy
|
-
|
-
|
Pronounced in some
vessels
|
Pronounced in
some vessels
|
Absent
|
6
|
Terminal
|
-
|
-
|
Pronounced in many
vessels
|
Heavy in many
vessels
|
Noticeable in a
few vessels
|
|
Forty to fifty percent of the patients in the age bracket of 25 to 60 who were examined by the
writer have shown Grade 3 or higher. One male (age 75) with Grade 5 coagulation, died shortly
after being forced to climb two flights of stairs during the New York City electric power blackout
(November 1965). Another male (age 63) with a known but inoperable tumor of the pancreas was
classified Grade 5. He died of cancer two months later.
The examination of the sclera and bulbar conjunctiva with the horizontally-aimed microscope is
highly essential to the evaluation of intravascular coagulation. There is every evidence that IVC is
closely allied to the physiochemical manifestation of cardiovascular disease.
Minor illness (such as head colds or 'two-day virus') will, in 24 hours, increase an IVC grade of
0-1 to Grade 3, and occasionally to Grade 4. It is probable that substantially all persons who are
gravely ill with a disease caused by a microorganism will show a degree of Grade 4 to Grade 5.
Indications are that there is some increase in IVC during the menstrual period; and that high
blood pressure (through vasoconstriction) has a tendency to mask intravascular coagulation.
Control of Colloid Stability Through Zeta Potential by Thomas M. Riddick Published for
Zeta-Meter, Inc. by Livingston Publishing Company, Wynnewood, PA