Week 28 / Haemostasis 1 Flashcards
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Q: What is the definition of haemostasis?
A: Haemostasis is the natural process and body’s physiological response that prevents significant blood loss after vascular injury by forming a localized plug in injured vessels, while keeping blood fluid and clot-free in normal blood vessels
Q: What is haemostasis?
A: Haemostasis is the process that prevents and stops bleeding, or the cessation of blood flow following injury to a blood vessel.
Q: What is thrombosis?
Thrombosis refers to the formation of blood clots inside a blood vessel.
Q: What is haemostasis?
A: Haemostasis is a finely tuned and complex biochemical process that prevents and stops bleeding.
Q: What are the major players in haemostasis? [3]
A
The blood vessel wall
Platelets and other blood cells
Coagulation proteins and other proteins.
Q: What are the four steps in haemostasis?
[what do each step do ?]
A:
Localised vasoconstriction - reduces blood flow to the injury site and retards blood loss.
Primary haemostasis - formation of a platelet plug to plug the breach in the blood vessel.
Secondary haemostasis - blood clotting/coagulation strengthens and reinforces the platelet plug.
Tertiary haemostasis - fibrinolysis, which dissolves the clot once blood vessel integrity has been restored.
Q: What happens during localised vasoconstriction in haemostasis?
[what does the blood vessel do ?
what is it mediated by? [2]
]
the injured blood vessel constricts,
mediated by reflex neurogenic mechanisms and locally released vasoconstrictors like endothelin.
Q: How long does localised vasoconstriction last?
A: Localised vasoconstriction is transient and typically lasts for up to 30 minutes.
Q: What is the effect of localised vasoconstriction?
A: It briefly reduces blood flow to the injury site and retards blood loss.
Q: What is the role of intact endothelium in primary haemostasis?
[what does it act as?
what does it do?
]
A: Intact endothelium acts as a physical barrier,
separating circulating platelets from thrombogenic substances in the extravascular space.
Q: What triggers primary haemostasis after vascular injury?
[what does the vascular injury expose?]
[which 4 events are initiated ? aaap]
A: Vascular injury exposes
the procoagulant subendothelial matrix to circulating platelets, initiating four events:
Platelet adhesion
Platelet activation
Platelet aggregation
Platelet plug formation.
Q: What happens during [platelet adhesion] in primary haemostasis?
[upon injury]
A: Upon endothelial injury, platelets bind to exposed subendothelial matrix proteins (e.g., collagen) through transmembrane glycoprotein receptors.
Q: What are the key glycoprotein receptors involved in platelet adhesion?
A: The key glycoprotein receptors involved in platelet adhesion include:
GP1b-IX-V complex binds to von Willebrand factor
GPVI and α2β1 (GPIa-IIa) bind directly to collagen
GP1c/IIa binds to fibronectin.
Q: What happens during platelet activation in primary haemostasis? [4]
A: Platelets undergo several key changes:
Shape change: Platelets transform from a normal discoid shape to elongated cells with cytoplasmic extensions.
Granule release: Platelets release the contents of preformed cytoplasmic granules.
α-granules: Contain von Willebrand factor (vWF), P-selectin, FV, and FXIII.
Dense granules: Contain ADP, serotonin, and calcium (Ca²⁺), etc.
Membrane phospholipid metabolism: Increases thromboxane A₂ (TXA₂) production.
Activation and expression of GPIIb/IIIa receptors.
Q: What happens during [platelet aggregation and plug formation] in primary haemostasis?
A: Agonist-activated platelet GPIIb/IIIa receptors bind fibrinogen, creating cross-bridges with adjacent platelets and forming a primary haemostatic plug.
Q: Is the primary haemostatic plug sufficient to stop haemorrhage in all blood vessels?
A: The primary haemostatic plug is sufficient to stop haemorrhage in small blood vessels, but not in larger vessels or those with severe injury.
Q: What role do aggregated platelets play in secondary haemostasis?
[what do they form]
A: The activated and aggregated platelets
form the phospholipid membrane surface necessary for the clotting process in secondary haemostasis.
Q: What is secondary haemostasis also called?
A: Secondary haemostasis is also called the Coagulation Cascade.
Q: What is the main goal of secondary haemostasis?
A: The main goal is to form a stable fibrin clot at the site of injury.
Q: How does secondary haemostasis contribute to clot formation?
A: Secondary haemostasis involves the serial activation of coagulation factors, leading to the formation of insoluble, cross-linked fibrin, which stabilizes the primary platelet plug and forms a compact, solid, irreversible clot (secondary haemostatic plug).
Q: What is the Coagulation Cascade?
[whats the type of process?
what does it involve?]
A: The Coagulation Cascade is a sequence of enzymatic reactions involving blood-borne coagulation or clotting factors.
Q: What are the key components required for the major activation reactions in the Coagulation Cascade? [3]
A: The major activation reactions require
a negatively charged phospholipid-rich membrane surface,
an enzyme (activated coagulation factor),
a substrate (proenzyme form of downstream coagulation factor), a cofactor, and Ca²⁺.
Q: How is the Coagulation Cascade traditionally divided?
A: It is traditionally divided into three distinct pathways: the intrinsic, extrinsic, and common pathways.
Q: What happens during the Coagulation Cascade?
A: The Coagulation Cascade involves serial activation of inactive plasma proteins (a & B globulins) to active enzymes and cofactors, leading to the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin by the activated enzyme thrombin.
