Harvey Chapter 7 Evaluation of Hemostasis PART I: Platelet Disorders (with Schalm's) AKG Flashcards
Where is vWF stored?
Endothelial Weibel-Palade bodies (only trace amounts in platelets)
vWF circulates in multimers of various sizes bound to ____.
FVIII (preserves half life of FVIII) - hence ‘factor VIII related antigen’
vWF binds to subendothelial collagen and undergoes a conformational change to be able to bind to _____ on platelets.
GP1b
____ multimers are most effective for wWF adhesion to platelets.
HMW
This molecule breaks down multimers of vWF into smaller ones.
ADAMST13
In type __ vWD, there is a partial quantitative deficiency (<50%) of wWF, but the remaining wWF remains in all multimer sizes with normal structure and function.
Type I
Which vWD has a functional loss in vWF (loss of large/HMW vWF multimers)?
Which assay is used to detect functional loss?
Type 2A
Functional assay: collagen binding assay (vWF needs to be functional in order to bind to collagen)
Which type of vWD results in complete vWF deficiency (<0.1%)?
Type 3
Which vWD subtypes are recessive vs dominant inheritance?
Type 1 – dominant
Type 2A and Type 3 – recessive
Type 1 vWD leads to _____ bleeding, while type 2A and type 3 lead to _____ bleeding.
Type 1 - mild to severe
Type 2A and 3 - severe
Type 1 and 2A vWD will have _____ VWF:Ag; type 3 vWD will have ____ VWF:Ag.
How do you differentiate type 1 from 2A?
Low
Absent
Collagen binding assay (VWF:CB) - need HMW multimers of vWF to bind to collagen. HMW multimers are present in type 1, but not in type 2A.
You can also use protein electrophoresis and western blots to look at vWF multimers - but these tests are mainly done for research, and not common clinically.
____ and ___ are the two best quantitative assays for measuring VWF antigen (VWF:Ag)
ELISA and latex immunoassay
What does it mean to have 120% of vWF antigen? Is this clinically significant?
Platelets have 20% mroe than the average pool. Not clinically significant.
What are the three categories of primary hemostasis disorders?
- Thrombocytopenia
- Platelet function (issue with platelet aggregation)
- vW disease
What are two POC assays that serve as screening tests for vWD if you suspect bleeding disorder and platelet count is normal and coag profile is normal?
BMBT
Platelet function analyzer (PFA-100)
PFA-100 measures platelet plug formation in whole blood under _____. The endpoint (closure time) is the occlusion of an aperture coated with _____ (mimics exposure of subendothelium when endothelium gets injured) and platelet clumping agonist (____ or _____).
High shear flow
collagen
ADP or epinephrine
PFA-100 will be prolonged by which subtypes of vWD?
Is this test specific?
all vWD types
this test is nonspecific, and will be affected by thrombocytopenia and anemia
What is the difference between an intrinsic and extrinsic platelet disorder?
Why is it important to classify between the two?
An intrinsic platelet disorder is a defect in platelets causing platelet dysfunction or thrombocytopenia.
An extrinsic platelet disorder is a defect in serum or subendothelial collagen affecting platelet adhesion (e.g., vWD, hypo/dysfibrinogenemia).
You will see petechia and ecchymotic hemorrhage and prolonged mucosal bleeding times and normal coagulation profile with both.
Transufsion products for intrinsic vs extrinscic disorders differ.
Inherited macrothrombocytopenia occurs in this dog breed _____, and is the result of a _____ deficiency. Is it associated with clinical bleeding?
Cavalier King Charles Spaniels
Beta-1-tubulin deficiency - not associated with clinical bleeding
Glanzmann Thrombasthenia is a mutation resulting in the absence (< 5%) of ______ receptor. This results in a functional issue with platelet ____. There is no clot retraction and platelets fail to aggregate in response to any/all agonists (even thrombin).
GPIIb-IIIa (aka αIIb-ßIII) –> this is the fibrinogen receptor, and results in an issue with platelet bridging.
Cyclic hematopoiesis is an inherited disorder of ______ that affects three cell types (____, _____, and ____). Platelet counts are _____ and platelet function is ______. There is an absence of ____ granules and defective reactivity to platelet agonists. The mutation was found in gene _____.
Grey collies
neutrophils, reticulocytes, platelets
Plt counts are normal, platelet function is decreased
Dense granules
AP3ß1
This syndrome involves abnormal leukocyte, melanocyte, and platelet granulation and results in increased infections and bleeding diathesis. It alters platelet function by having absent ___ granules. These granules contain ADP which is responsible for _____ of platelets in response to ____. The mutation is found in the ____ gene. Species affected?
Chediak-Higashi syndrome
Dense granules
aggregation
collagen
LYST gene (lysosomal trafficking regulator)
Calcium diacylglycerol guanine nucleotide exchange factor I (CalDAG-GEFI) thrombopathias is a platelet _____ disorder that results in a conformation change in ______ (therefore it does not affect #, just function).
It mostly affects ____, and often is referred to as canine thrombopathia in literature. Other breeds/species affected include ____, ____, and ____.
There is ______ platelet aggregation responses to ADP/collagen.
There is ____ platelet aggregation response to thrombin, making clot retraction assays ____ becuase they use thrombin.
Signal transduction
GPIIß-IIIα
Bassets (1/3rd are carriers); Eskimo, Lanseers, Simmental Cattle
absent platelet aggregation in response to ADP/collagen
mildly decreased platelet aggregation in response to thrombin; making clot retraction assays normal.
List the contents of platelet dense granules (5)
ADP
ATP
Serotonin (5-HT)
Calcium
Magnesium