3. Changes of haemostasis Flashcards
What are the major groups of hemostasis disorders?
- Vasculopathy
- Thromobocytopathy/penia
- Coagulopathy
What is meant by vasculopathy?
The decreased ability of vasoconstriction in case of blood vessel injury, it is the first step of the haemostasis process
What is meant by thrombocytopathy?
The decreased ability of platelets to aggregate and adhere to the site of injury, and the formation of the primary thrombocyte-thrombus - the second step of hemostasis process
What is meant by thrombocytopenia?
Decreased amount of thrombocytes in the blood
What is meant by coagulopathy?
When there is an problem with the extrinsic or intrinsic, common pathway of the coagulation cascade, it ends with the formation of a polymerized fibrin network, which keeps thrombocyte thrombi at the site of injury - this is the third and the final step of hemostasis
What are the tests that we can perform by the side of the animal
- sign of increased bleeding tendencies
- capillary resistance
- bleeding time - BMBTT
- appearnace of the first fibrin strand
- appearance of the clot
- clot reaction time
what is another name for the capillary resistance test?
Rumpel-Leed-test
How is the capillary resistance test performed
put a ligature above the elbow (tornique) and check the palmar side of the lower arm for petechie. they should normally appear after 3-5 min
In what cases will more petechia appear during the capillary resistance test?
if the capillaries are not functioning properly, more fragile - vasculitis or other diseases affecting the wall of the blood vessels
What are we testing for with the blleding time test?
thromobcytopenias
thrombocytopathies
vasopathies
how do you perform bleeding time test?
make a 0,1-0,2mm deep cut, 0,5cm long incision on the skin of the inner part of the external ear or on the buccal muscosal surface. wipe away the blood under the cut, check for the tming when it stops bleeding
normal BMBT is 3-5min
What do you test with coagulation time test?
coagulopathies
In what state should the blood be in case of testing the coagualtion time?
fresh, native whole blood sample
- no antigoaculants
the test should be performed immediately after taking the blood sample
How should the blood be drawn in case of taking blood sample for a coagulation test?
one precise venipuncture, two syringe method
What are the different methods that coagulation time can be tested?
- appearnce of the first fibrin strand
- clotting time on watch glass
- CT in plastic syringe
- CT in glass tube
- CT in activated clotting time tube
How is the “appearance of the first fibrin strand” performed?
some drops of blood are put onto a glas slide, move the tip of the needle back and forth until the first fibrin strand apperas
1-2min
How is “clotting time on watch glass” performed?
put parrafin/wax treated blood onto a watch glass, check the complete ciagulation time
7-15min
How is “CTin plastic syringe” performed?
put the fresh blood into a plastic syringe and check the time of the complete coagulation
10-12 min
How is the “CT in glass tube” test performed?
put fresh blood into a glass test tube and check the time of the complete coagulation
4-5 min
How is the “CT in ACT” test performed?
put the frsh blood into a glass test tube that contains SiO2, put in a thermosate, and check the time for teh complete coagulation- slowly move the tube ever 15-20sec
normal: 3min
Why would you use SiO2 in a cioagulation test?
SiO2 will activate facto XII
which activates IX and kallikerinogen, kiniogen
When is it important to do a platelet count?
when the BT, BMBT is increased
visible petechie on skin and mucous membrane
What blood should be used to count platelets?
anticoagulated blood - Na1 or K2EDTA
How is the first method for counting platelets performed?
mix 0,1ml blood with 0.9ml physiological saline
let it sediment for two hours
drip a drop from the upper layer into burker chamber
count in 10 rectangles
multiply the number by 10^9 - this will be the number of platelets in one litre of blood
the process can happen quicker if we sentrifuge it
How is the second method of counting platelets?
by using a blood smear
if you find one platelet in one view by 1000x magnification it means you have 20x10^9/l platelet count
more important is to check the arrangement - aggregates
How is the thrid method of coutning platelet and also the best one?
The automatic cell counter
- particles between 5-30 fl are tkaen as platelets
In what cases might the automatic cell counter become confused about what is what?
Large platelets: regenerative processes, chronic blood loss, cats, king charles spaniel
Taken as RBC instead
Small RBC: taken as platelets
Thrombocyte aggregates: WBC - platelet count is measured to be normal or low, WBC i increased
What is the general platelet count?
200-800x10^9/l
What are the major causes of thrombocytopenia?
- Decreased production of thrombocytes in the bone marrow
- increased utilisation of thrombocyte: DIC
- increased destruction of thromobcytes: autoimmune thromobcytopenia
- increased sequestration of thrombocytes: splenomagaly
- increased loss of thrombocytes: subacute/chronic bleeding
What is the clot retraction test?
its when you leave a blood clot in a tube for some hours, you will see that it becomes smaller and the serum will appear around theh clot. the contractile protein thrombostenin will be the cause of this retraction - and we can test the thrombocytic function in this way
within one hour 25% of the whole volume of the initial clot should be waht is left