Haemostasis Flashcards
Primary hemostasis has 3 main components. What are they?
- Endothelium injury exposing collagen and releasing vWF
- vWF adheres platelets to endothelium
- Platelets - adhere, change shape, secrete, aggregate
What are the Vi-K dependent enzymes related to coagulation?
II, VII, IX, X
What factors are from the extrinsic pathway that feed into tenase?
VIIa-TF-Ca2+
What factors from the intrinsic pathway feed into tenase?
VIIIa-IXa-Ca2+ - PF3
What factors go into prothrombinase?
Va-Xa-Ca-PF-3
What causes coagulation inhibition?
Antithrombin III inhibits intrinsic & common pathways
TF inhibitor is an extrinsic pathway inhibitor, inhibits LACI, extrinsic tenase
What is fibrinolysis?
Blood clot lysis mediated by serine protease plasmin
Plasminogen is activated by…
tPA (tissue plasminogen activator)
UPA (urokinase PA)
tPA & UPA activators are inhibited by…
PAI-1 (plasminogen activator inhibitor 1) which binds free tPA
plasmin is inhibited by:
alpha2-antiplasmin
alpha2-macroglobulin
Plasmin formation is inhibited by
TAFI (thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis-inhibitor)
What does TAFI do?
Plays important role in stabilizing the fibrin clot, protecting it from lysis
TAFI is activated by
thrombin, especially with thrombomodulin as a cofactor
TAFI inactivates…
bradykinin which causes vasodilation, non-vascular smooth muscle contraction, increased vascular permeability, pain
What causes hemorrhagic diatheses?
- Deficiency/defective coagulation factors
- Quantitative or qualitative defects of platelets
- Diffuse endothelial injury
- Bleeding including hematoma, sites of mechanical stress, hemarthroses, purpura
Prothrombin time tests
the extrinsic and common coagulation pathways