Week 4 Flashcards
(90 cards)
3 qualities that you would find vital to hemostasis
- Localized and precise
- Rapidly responsive
- Self-limited
Goal of hemostatsis
maintain blood flow
Types of hemostasis
- Primary: platelet adhesion and aggregation, forming platelet plug
- Secondary: cascade, clotting factors; Happens at same time as primary
- Tertiary: clot resorption
Inactive Coagulation system
- vWF: in collagen, platelet, or free floating in plasma
- GPIa: active in resting state
- GPIIb/IIIa: inactive in resting state
Steps of hemostasis
- Injury to site- collagen is exposed and tissue factor is released
- Endothelial and subendothelial cells release vFW which will unwind and go to collagen and tissue factor begins forming thrombin
a. Thrombin: will activate platelets
b. vFW: will activate platelets - Activated platelets bind to vFW via GPIb
- Bound platelets expose GPIIb/IIIa
- Fibrinogen in blood will bind to GPIIb/IIIa of two platelets to cross link them and begin forming platelet plug
Activating platelet
- what induces?
- what is down stream effect?
- by tissue factor and binding to vWF
- induces exposure of GPIIb/IIIA
- Undergo conformation change
- Degranulate- will recruit more platelet to site of injury
- Arachodonic acid is taken from phospholipid membrane and converted to thromboxane A2
Importance of conformational change in platelets
-from disc shape to spiny shape; important because it allows for increased surface area, because stuff happening in secondary hemostasis happens in membrane of platelet
Granules in platelets
-electron dense and specific granule
Electron dense granule
-secretions
- ADP: activates more platelets
- Serotonin: localized vasoconstriction
Specific granule
-secretions
- Fibrinogen: links two platelets together to form platelet plug
- vWF: glue between platelets and collagen, draws platelet to site of injury
- PDGF: will start repair
Secondary Hemostasis
- Forms fibrin meshwork around platelet plug
- contributors: blood coagulation factors, platelets, calcium
Fibrin meshwork
- Gives platelet plug stability
- Will permanently seal the site of injury
Blood coagulation factors
- produced by:
- types:
- liver; already produced and present in blood, but inactive
- Serine proteases (II, VII, IX, X, XI); break down proteins with serines
- Cofactors: assist process by attaching to endothelium and collagen to help other enzymes bind
Coagulation factors I, II, III
-descriptive name, function/active form
I: fibrinogen, fibrin
II: prothrombin, serine protease
III: Tissue factor; cofactor
Extrinsic cascade
- function
- activation
- pathway
- produce small amount of Xa, to make small clot
- Exogenous Tissue Factor (Factor III)- thromboplastin
- Vascular injury–III (thromboplastin) + Ca–VII to VIIa (serine protease)–X to Xa (serine protease)
Intrinsic in-vitro
- function
- activated by
- pathway
- co-agulates blood outside of body
- activated by contacting negatively charged surface; ex. Glas (Kininogen and kallirein)
- produces large amount of Xa
- XII to XiI a–XI to XIa–IX to IXa–IXa and Factor VIIIa converts X to Xa
Intrinsic in-vivo
- function
- activation
- pathway
- co-agulates blood in body by producing large amount of Xa
- response to injury
- Tissue Factor activates VII to VIIa, VIIa then binds to Tissue Factor; Thrombin activates XI to XIa; XIa and VIIa/TF combine to change IX to IXa; Thrombin activates VIII to VIIIa; IXa and VIIIa combine to make tenase; tenase then changes X to Xa
Common pathway
- Xa + Va + Ca will activate prothrombin to thrombin; thrombin then activates fibrinogen to fibrin monomer and XIII to XIIIa; XIIIa then cross links fibrin monomers to make cross linked fibrin polymers (hard clot)
Thrombocytopenia
- definition
- based on
- below in hospital patients
- below in healthy patients
- decreased number of platelets in blood
- Defined based on reference range
- Below 50,000 would be worried about spontaneous bleeding
- In healthy patients 20,000 should be enough to stop spontaneous bleeding
Causes of thrombocytopenia
- Destruction
- Consumption: Decreased due to be used to make clot
- Decreased production in the bone marrow
Chronic ITP thrombocytopenic purpura
-cause
- Idiopathic (unknown cause) but it autoimmune mediated; Antibodies directed at platelets, Platelets destroyed in the spleen
- Purpura: easy superficial bruising
Treatment for Chronic ITP thrombocytopenic purpura
- Corticosteroid: Suppress immune response and decrease production of antibodies
- Retuximab: Mono-clonoal antibody that targets b-cells making antibodies
- Splenectomy: When nothing else works
Importance of history in bleeding disorders
-trying to figure out whether sxs are from genetic or acquired problem
What are we looking out for in PE for bleeding disorder
-collateral veins, bruising, redness, edema