Lec 4: Bleeding & Thrombosis Flashcards
What do you call the following : platelet adhesion, aggregation and fibrin clot formation.
Procoagulant forces
What are the major components of the hemostatic system?
- ) Platelets and other formed elements (monocytes and rbcs)
- ) Plasma Proteins
- ) Vessel Walla
On vascular injury, where do platelets adhere?
Denuded vascular intimal surface
Platelet adhesion is mediated by?
clue “molecular glue”
von Willebrand Factor
After adhesion, what happens next?
Platelet activation and aggregation
Platelet activation and aggregation are enhanced and amplified by?
Humoral mediators (eg epinephrine, thrombin)
Mediators from activated platelets (eg ADP, Serotonin)
Vessel Wall ECM
What anchors and stabilizes the platelet plug?
Developing fibrin mesh
What is the most abundant receptor on the platelet surface?
it is also an effective target for antiplatelet therapy.
GpIIb-IIIa
What receptor on the platelet surface binds with vWF?
Gp1b
What converts Gp IIb-IIIa into an active receptor?
Platelet activation
The coagulation cascade culminates in…
formation of Fibrin
What pathway is initiated by Tissue Factor/ Factor III
Extrinsic Pathway
What amplifies the tissue factor pathway?
Intrinsic Pathway
What is the immediate trigger for coagulation?
Vascular damage…exposing blood to Tissue Factor
Where is the tissue factor found?
on the surfaces of the subendothelial cellular components of the vessel wall
Tissue Factor is also shed from…
monocytes and platelets
What is the function of factor XIa?
propagation and amplification
What happens after the TF binds the serine protease factor VIIa?
Activation of Factor X to Factor Xa
TF-Factor VII complex can also activate Factor X INDIRECTLY via…
converting Factor IX to Factor IXa
What do you call the multifunctional enzyme that converts soluble plasma fibrinogen into insoluble fibrin matrix?
Thrombin
Thrombin also activates…
clue: factor that stabilizes fibrin clot
Factor XIII (fibrin-stabilizing factor) into Factor XIIIa
What do you call the mechanisms that seek to preserve blood fluidity and to limit blood clotting to specific local sites of vascular injury?
Antithrombotic mechanisms
Give examples of substances that inhibit platelet binding, secretion, and aggregation.
Prostacyclin, Nitric Oxide, ectoADPase/ CD39
What are example of anticoagulant factors produced by the endothelial cells?
Heparan Proteoglycans, Antithrombin, TF Pathway Inhibitors, Thrombomodulin
Give examples of substances that activate fibrolytic mechanisms
Tissue Plasminogen Activator 1, Urokinase, Annexin-2
How does Antithrombin neutralize Thrombin?
by forming a complex between the active site of the enzyme and the reactive center of the antithrombin.
rate of the formation of the complex increases with the presence of Heparin
What plasma glycoprotein becomes an anticoagulant when it is activated by thrombin?
It also enhances the activation efficiency of the thrombin-thrombomodulin complex
Protein C
What is a transmembrane proteoglycan-binding site for thrombin on endothelial cell surfaces?
Thrombomodulin
How does protein C act as an anticoagulant? And what is its cofactor?
by cleaving and inactivating Factors V and VIII
Protein S
Quantitative or qualitative deficiencies of Protein C or S, or resistance to the activation of protein C by a specific mutation at its target cleavage site in factor Va leads to..
Hypercoagulability states
This is a plasma protease inhibitor that regulates the TF-induced extrinsic pathway of coagulation
Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor (TFPI)
What is activated to dispose of intravascular fibrin and thereby maintain or reestablish the patency of circulation?
Endogenous Fibrolytic System
What is the major protease enzyme of the fibrinolytic system?
Plasmin
What enzymes cleave the Arg60-Val561 bond of plasminogen to generate the active enzyme plasmin?
Tissue Type Plasminogen Activator (tPA) and Urokinase-type Plasminogen Activator (uPA)
The physiologic fibrinolysis is termed “_____” because the lysine-binding sites of plasmin permit it to bind to fibrin
Fibrin-specific
The ternary complex is composed of…
fibrin, plasminogen, and tPA
This complex promotes localized interaction between plaminogen and tPA and greatly accelerates the rate of plasminogen activation to plasmin
Ternary Complex
What is released when plasmin acts on covalently cross-linked fibrin?
D-dimers
D-dimers can be measured in plasma as a relative specific test of ______ degradation and has been validated for clincal use to exclude DVT and pulmonary embolism.
Fibrin
Physiologic regulation of fibrinolysis occurs primarily at what levels? (3)
- plasminogen activator inhibitors inhibit physiological plasminogen activators
- thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) limits fibrinolysis
- alpha 2-antiplasmin inhibits plasmin
What is the hallmark of moderate and severe factor VIII and IX deficiency
hemarthroses
These symptoms are more suggestive of underlying platelet disorders or vW disease
Mucosal Bleeding
What has been validated as a tool to predict patients more likely to have type 1 VWD?
Bleeding Score
A low bleeding score (less than/equal to 3) and a normal aPTT had 99% negative predictive value for the diagnosis of what disease?
von Willebrand Disease
If there is posttraumatic bleeding and a history of hyperextensibility, what is the disease?
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Chronic steroid and aging result in changes in skin and subcutaneous tissue, subcutaneous bleeding occurs in response to minor trauma. This is seen in what syndrome
Cushing’s Syndrome
It is the most common symptom in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia and in BOYS with VWD
Epistaxis
Quantitative loss of >80ml of blood per mestruation cycle
Menorrhagia
What are the predictors of menorrhagia?
Bleeding resulting in Iron Deficiency Anemia/ need for blood transfusion, passage of clots >1inch in diameter, and changing pad/tampon more than once hourly.
What substances impair primary hemostasis and may exacerbate bleeding from another cause or even unmask a previously occult mild bleeding disorder such as VWD?
Aspirin and NSAIDs
What supplement can impare platelet function?
Fish-oil or concentrated omega-3 fatty acid supplements
What Vitamin inhibits protein kinase C-mediated aggregation and nitric oxide production?
Vitamin E
Factors II, VII, IX, and X and proteins C and S are dependent on what Vitamin?
Vitamin K
Vitamin K deficiency results in
Bleeding
This results from decreased productiopn, increase destruction, and or sequestration of platelet
Thrombocytopenia
What are the normal levels of platelet in blood?
150,000-450,000/uL
bleeding occurs in what levels of platlet count?
10,000-20,000/uL
What is the level of platelet count needed for surgery?
80,000/uL
What is the major risk factor for arterial thrombosis?
Atherosclerosis
What are the risk factors for venous thrombosis?
immobility, surgery, underlying medical conditions such as malignancy, medications such as hormonal therapy, obesity, and genetic predisposition
In patient without underlying malignancy, having _____ is the strongest predictor of recurrence of Venous Thrombus Embolism
Idiopathic Event
what are symptoms of hemarthroses?
severe pain and swelling, loss of function, (rarely) discoloration from bruising around the joint
What is the essential cofactor in conversion of prothrombin to thrombin?
Factor Va
What is the size of petechiae?
What is the size of purpura?
2mm-1cm
What is the size of ecchymoses?
> 1cm
Rupture of ovarian cysts with intraabdominal hemorrhage results to
Postpartum bleeding
Give examples of ACQUIRED bleeding disorders
Liver disease, Severe Renal Impairement, Hypothyroidism, Paraproteinemias or amyloidosis, Bone marrow failure
History of what drug may suggest past DVT?
Warfarin
What is assessed when Prothrombin Time is requested for a patient?
Function of Extrinsic and Common Pathway
What is assessed when Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time is requested for the patient?
Intrinsic and common pathway
What is assessed in Thrombin time?
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Pathways
Hereditary disorders diagnosed with the use of aPTT
Hemophilia a (Factor VIII deficiency) Hemophilia b (Factor IX deficiency)
This assesses anticoagulation due to reduction of Vit K-dependent coagulation factors. Roughly predicts the bleeding risk in liver disease
International Normalized Ratio (INR)
Prolonged Prothrombin time is seen in what diseases?
Factor VII deficiency, early Vit K deficiency, Warfarin anticoagulation
Prolonged aPTT and PT is seen in?
Factor II, V, or X deficiency, late Vit K deficiency, direct thrombin inhibitors
This is used to distinguish bet a factor deficiency and an inhibitor
Mixing studies
Predictors for recurrent thrombosis
D-dimer assay, thrombin generation test
For minor surgeries, what is the minimum platelet count required?
50,000/uL