Essential Guide to Blood Coagulation.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Antovic, Jovan
Other Authors: Blomb?ck, Margareta
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Wiley, 2013.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Schematic presentation of the hemostatic system / Nils Egberg
  • Proposals for sampling instructions / Margareta Blombäck and Nils Egberg
  • Laboratory investigations / Jovan P. Antovic, Liselotte Onelöv, and Nils Egberg
  • Hereditary bleeding disorders / Margareta Holmström and Lars-Göran Lundberg
  • Critical bleeding / Maria Bruzelius, Anna Ågren, and Hans Johnsson
  • Investigation of increased bleeding tendency / Margareta Holmström and Lars Göran Lundberg
  • Venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism / Anders Carlsson
  • Investigations of thromboembolic tendency / Margareta Holmström
  • Heart disease / Håkan Wallen and Rickard Linder
  • Antiplatelet drug therapy and reversal of its effects / Håkan Wallen, Hans Johnsson, and Bo-Michael Bellander
  • New oral anticoagulants : focus on currently approved oral factor Xa and thombin inhibitors / Rickard E. Malmström and Hans Johnsson
  • Stroke and transient ischemic attack / Nils Wahlgren and Mia von Euler
  • Peripheral artery surgery / Jesper Swedenborg
  • Hemostasis in obstetrics and gynecology / Katarina Bremme
  • Hemostasis in children / Susanna Ranta and Pia Petrini
  • Emergency conditions associated with coagulation : DIC, HIT, and TTP/HUS / Jovan P. Antovic and Margareta Holmström.
  • Part 1 General Hemostasis
  • 1. Schematic presentation of the hemostatic system
  • 2. Proposals for sampling instructions
  • Points to note prior to sampling
  • Sampling time and patient preparation
  • Referrals for coagulation analyses
  • Sampling
  • Analyses of plasma
  • Technique
  • For DNA investigation (genetic analyses)
  • Reference
  • 3. Laboratory investigations
  • Nomenclature
  • Reference intervals for laboratory investigations
  • Screening analyses
  • Pt-Bleeding time
  • Other proposed analyses when bleeding time is increased in spite of normal platelet count
  • Special analyses
  • Coagulation factors
  • Anticoagulants
  • Protein C anticoagulant system
  • Platelet function
  • Fibrinolysis
  • Markers of coagulation activation (hypercoagulation markers)
  • Activating peptides: general remarks
  • P-prothrombin fragment 1+2 (F1+2)
  • P-thrombin-antithrombin (TAT) complex
  • DNA analyses
  • DNA-based diagnosis of hemophilia A and B
  • DNA-based diagnosis in VWD
  • DNA-based diagnosis in other hereditary bleeding disorders
  • DNA-based diagnosis in thromboembolic disorders
  • Global hemostatic assays and bedside methods
  • Endogenous thrombin potential (ETP)
  • Overall hemostatic potential (OHP)
  • Thromboelastography (TEG®)/ROTEM®)
  • Point-of-care tests (POCT) also used as a routine
  • Useful components in research studies
  • Fibrin-gel structure
  • P-plasmin-plasmin inhibitor complex
  • P-t-PA-PAI complex
  • P-thrombin time
  • P-ecarin clotting time
  • P-C1-esterase inhibitor
  • P-elastase
  • P-heparin co-factor II (HC II)
  • P-plasminogen activator inhibitor 2 (PAI-2)
  • P-protein C inhibitor
  • P-APC-protein C inhibitor (PCI) complex
  • P-Tafi
  • P-VWF cleaving protease = ADAMTS-13
  • P-tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI)
  • P-tissue factor (TF)
  • Platelet-activating predictors
  • P-thromboglobulin (β-TG), P-platelet factor 4 (PF4)
  • Platelet P-selectin (CD62P) or P-soluble P-selectin
  • PLT-fibrinogen, PLT-VWF
  • Microparticles (MP)
  • Other non-hemostatic variables of importance P/S-CRP
  • Combinations of assays suggested for various hemostatic abnormalities
  • References
  • Part 2 Bleeding Disorders
  • 4. Hereditary bleeding disorders
  • General remarks about hemophilia A and B
  • General remarks about von Willebrand disease
  • Factor concentrates used for treatment of hemophilia A and B and VWD in Sweden in 2012
  • General remarks about factor concentrates
  • Treatment strategy in severe forms of hemophilia and VWD
  • Home/self-treatment
  • Treatment in trauma and acute bleedings
  • Recommendations for desired initial plasma concentrations at different types of bleedings
  • Prophylaxis against joint bleedings
  • Surgery in patients with bleeding disorders
  • Tooth extraction in a hemophilia patient
  • Caution in patients with bleeding disorders
  • Pain-killing drugs allowed in hemophilia
  • Other important issues in more severe forms of hemophilia and VWD
  • Risk of hepatitis
  • Treatment principles for different types of bleeding disorders (severe, moderate, and milder forms of hemostatic defects)
  • Hematuria
  • Nose bleeding
  • Gum bleeding
  • Menorrhagia
  • Pregnancy and delivery
  • Treatment with tranexamic acid
  • Contraindication
  • Rare bleeding disorders
  • Severe platelet function defect (e.g. Glanzmann thrombasthenia)
  • Mild hemostatic defects
  • Blood sampling in bleeding disorders
  • Bleeding risk charts