Drugs Affecting Blood Coagulation Flashcards
In a blood vessel injury what seals off the small injury?
Local vasoconstriction
What forms the platelet plug when a blood vessel injury occurs?
Platelet aggregation
When a blood vessel injury occurs what type of factor is activated?
The Hageman factor
What converts prothrombin to thrombin in a blood vessel injury?
Intrinsic factor
What is converted to thrombin to seal the system when a blood vessel injury?
Prothrombin
What seals the system when a blood vessel injury occurs?
Thrombin
What clots the blood that has leaked out of the vascular system?
The extrinsic pathway
In a blood vessel injury what is left over after the platelets are gone. This typically happens between 24 and 48 hours.
Fibrin
When testing for a blood clot what protein is picked up in the D-dimer test?
Fibrin
What happens during fibrinolysis?
The clot is removed
What initiates fibrinolysis?
Release of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)
What does plasminogen get converted to during fibrinolysis?
Plasminogen
What converts plasminogen to plasmin?
Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)
What digests fibrin strands during fibrinolysis?
Plasmin
True or false:
Fibrinolysis is not regulated
False:
It is regulated so unwanted clots are removed and only fibrin is left.
What do anticoagulants do?
They interfere with the clotting cascade and thrombin formation
What is the action of an antiplatelet?
It alters the formation of the platelet plug