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Name the disorders of haemostasis

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  • Haemorrhage

- Thrombosis

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What factors may be affected leading to haemorrhage?

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  • Endothelium/blood vessel
  • Platelets
  • Coagulation factors
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How might the endothelium/blood vessels be altered in order to lead to haemorrhage?

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  • Trauma
  • Erosion by inflammation/neoplasia
  • Endotoxaemia
  • Toxins
  • Inherited conditions (e.g. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)
  • Acquired conditions (vit C deficiency)
  • Vascular fragility
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How might platelets be altered leading to haemorrhage?

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  • Decreased paltelet number (thrombocytopaenia)

- Abnormal platelet function (thrombocytopathy)

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How might coagulation factors be altered leading to haemorrhage?

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  • Inherited deficiencies (e.g. haemophilia A/B, Von Willebrand’s disease)
  • Acquired defects (e.g. severe liver disease, warfarin intoxication)
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What is petechia?

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Pinpoint (1-2mm) haemorrhage

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What is ecchymosis?

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Haemorrhage up to 2-3cm

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What is haematoma?

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Haemorrhage in focal, confined space i.e. bruise

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What is haemoabdomen?

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Blood in the abdomen

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What is haemoperitoneum?

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Blood in the periotoneal cavity

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What is haemothorax?

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Blood in the thoracic cavity

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What is haemopericardium?

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Blood in the pericardial sac

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What determines the significance of a haemorrhage?

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The amount, rate and location of blood loss

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What is thrombosis?

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Formation of inappropriate clot of fibrin and/or platelets along with other blood elements

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What is a mural thrombus?

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A thrombus that forms on the wall of blood or lymphatic vessel or the heart

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What is a thromboembolus?

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A thrombus free in the lumen of a vessel

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What may lead to thrombosis?

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  • Endothelial injury
  • Alterations in blood flow
  • Hypercoagulability
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Give examples of endothelial injury that may lead to thrombosis

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  • Infectious agents
  • Immune-medaited
  • Toxins
  • disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
  • Faulty intravenous injections
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Give examples of alterations in blood flow that may lead to thrombosis

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  • Local stasis/decreased blood flow
  • Cardiac disease
  • Aneurysm
  • Hypovolaemia
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Give examples of hypercoagulabity conditions that may lead to thrombosis

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  • Inflammation
  • Increased platelet activity
  • Increased clotting factor activation
  • Antithrombin III deficiency
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What is Virchow’s triad?

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The factors (endothelial injury, hypercoagulability and abnormal blood flow) that may lead to thrombosis

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What determines the significance of a thrombus?

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  • Location
  • Ability to disrupt perfusion in a dependent tissue (depends on size, rate of formation, and method or resolution or repair)
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What is a thromboembolus?

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Portion or whole thrombus can break loose and enter circulation as an embolus

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Where are venous thromboemboli often found?

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Typically lodge in pulmonary circulation

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Where are arterial thromboemboli often found?
Typically near sites of vascular bifurcation
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What are the consequences of pulmonary venous thromboemboli?
- Lead to respiratory problems | - Eventually lead to heart disease
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What are the potential alterations in blood flow called?
- Hyperaemia (increased blood flow) - Congestion (decreased blood flow) - Decreased tissue perfusion
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What are the characteristics of hyperaemia?
- Active engorgement of vascular beds - Inflow increased (via arteriolar dilation) - Outflow may be normal or decreased
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What may cause hyperaemia?
- Physiologic: heat (skin), postprandially (GI) | - Pathologic: inflammation
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What are the characteristics of congestion?
- Passive engorgement of vascular beds - Outflow decreased - Inflow normal or increased
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What may cause congestion?
- Acute: heart failure, euthanasia, anaesthesia | - Chronic: obstruction of venous outflow, heart failure, pulmonary disease
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What may lead to decreased tissue perfusion?
- Obstruction of a blood vessel - Local vascular congestion - Decreased cardiac output
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What is an infarct?
An area of ischaemic necrosis caused by the occlusion of either arterial supply or venous drainage
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What does infarction commonly occur secondary to?
Thrombosis/thromboembolism
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What factors influence the development of an infarct?
- Nature of vascular supply (e.g. kidney and spleen have end-arterial supply) - Rate at which occlusion develops - Vulnerability to hypoxia - Oxygen content of the blood (i.e. venous or arterial)
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What is the effect of slow infarct development?
Provides time to develop alternate perfusion pathways
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What are the characteristics of infarct following arterial obstruction?
- Loss of blood flow to downstream tissue | - Abrupt coagulative necrosis downstream of obstruction
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What are the characteristics of infarct following venous obstruction?
- Stagnation of blood flow, reduction or loss of venous return - Progressive ischaemia and ultimately coagulative necrosis of tissue upstream of obstruction site
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What is DIC?
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
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What is DIC?
Serious manifestation of abnormal coagulation that leads to severe dyshaemostasis, caused by generation of excess thrombin
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What are the potential causes of DIC?
- Diffuse vascular damage - Systemic infections - Any other stimuli that activate release of inflammatory mediators - Massive anaphylactic events
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Describe the mechanism of DIC
- Excess thrombin leads to platelet aggregation and fibrin formation - Get widespread microvascular clots - Consumption of coagulation factors - Widespread haemorrhages occur as clots are using up coagulation factors
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What is shock?
Cardiovascular collapse
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Give the sequence of events in shock
- Hypotension - Decreased tissue perfusion - Cellular hypoxia - Shift to anaerobic metabolism - Cellular degeneration - Cell death
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What are the different types of shock?
- Cardiogenic - Hypovolaemia - Blood maldistribution
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What is cardiogenic shock?
Failure of the heart to adequately pump blood
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What is hypovolaemic shock?
Decreased circulating blood volume due to blood or fluid loss
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What are the 3 types of blood maldistribution shock?
- Anaphylactic - Neurogenic - Septic
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What causes anaphylactic shock?
Generalised type 1 hypersensitivity
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What causes neurogenic shock?
Trauma to the nervous system, may be elctrocution, fear, emotional stress
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What causes septic shock?
- Peripheral vasodilation caused by components of bacteria (endotoxin) or fungi - Induce release of excessive amounts of vascular and inflammatory mediators
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What factors need to be included in the gross description of an abnormality in post mortem?
- Location - Number/extent - Demarcation (well/poor) - Distribution (focal, multifocal, locally extensive, diffuse etc) - Colour - Size (metric units) - Shape - Consistency and texture - Extent (% of organ affected) - Any other information e.g. odour, sound
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What factors relating to the carcase need to be described in post mortem?
- Main features - Weight - Age - Breed - Species - Sex - Body condition - Any identifying feature e.g. tattoos, tags - Abnormaities - Degree of post-mortem decomposition
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In what way should a morphological diagnosis be written?
Organ: severity, duration, distribution, descriptors, diagnosis

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