Lecture 29 - Anticoagulants + Hemostatic Flashcards
What are examples of hypercoaguable states?
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy IMHA Cushing's disease Acute phase inflammation Protein-losing nephropathy
What are examples of a hypocoaguable state?
post-surgery
Genetic bleeding disorders
Liver failure
What are the three necessary components of a functional clotting system?
Production of clotting factors
Functional platelets
Break down of clots
What is the breaking down of blood clots called
Firbinolysis
What interacts with blotting factors to induce the coagulation cascade?
Platelets
What are the factors within the intrinsic pathway?
12 - 11 - 9 - 8
What are the factors within the extrinsic pathway?
Tissue factor - 7
Where are the extrinsic molecules located?
Wall of the blood vessel
What tests the extrinsic pathway?
PT
What tests the intrinstic pathway?
aPTT
What is part of the common pathway?
Factor 10
2 - 1
What is factor 2 known as?
Thrombin
What is factor I known as?
Fibrinogen
What does fibrinogen do?
Polymerizes into a clot
What are the factors that depend on Vitamin K?
2 - 7 - 9 - 10
How does vitamin K activate certain Factors in the coag pathway?
Reduced –> Oxidized state
with y-glutamyl carboxylase
What recycles y-glutamyl carboxylase back to reduced form?
Vitamin K epoxide reductase
What is warfarin used in, in an extra-label use manner?
Food animals + Horses
how is warfarin distributed throughout the body?
Via plasma protein
What are the differences that you see in 1/2 life of warfarin?
extremely long in cats
How is warfarin metabolized?
Hepatic
How is warfarin excreted?
Urine + Feces
Why is the use of warfarin complicated?
Very small theraputic index
What is seen with warfarin toxicity?
Fatal hemorrhade w/ anemia
Hematomas all over
Congenital malformation in dogs + cats