Primary hemostasis Flashcards

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Hemostasis definition

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process by which the body spontaneoulsy stops bleeding and maintains blood in the fluid state within the vascular compartment

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2
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bleeding that doesnt stop

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hemorrhage

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3
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too mcuh coagulation

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thrombosis

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4
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Primary hemostasis

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Injury

Vascular Phase

Platelet Adhesion

Platelet Aggregation

Temporary Plug

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5
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Secondary hemostasis

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Coagulation cascade

Fibrin Clot Forms

Healing

Fibrinolysis

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6
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Major systems

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  • Vascular
  • platelets
  • coagulation
  • Fibrinolytic
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7
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Minor systems

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  • Kinin
  • Serine Protease
  • Complement
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Blood vessel

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smooth, continuous endothelial lining
- “nonwettable
- facilitates blood flow

Under normal conditions, hemostasis is prevented by
- endothelium as a physical barrier
- Endothelial secretions of platelet inhibitors Prostacyclin PGI2, and Nitric Oxide NO

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9
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Blood vessel layer composition

Inside–> Out

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Tunica Intima
Tunica media
Tunica adventitia

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Tunica intima

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  • Broad flat endothelial cells
  • supports migration of cells
  • subendothelium = collagen, connective tissue and fibroblasts
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Tunica media

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  • Elastic tissue and smooth muscle
  • Vasoconstriction
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Tunica adventitia

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  • connective tissue
  • support
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13
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Smooth muscle constricts

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vasoconstriction

Diverts blood flow around damaged vasculature

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14
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When a blood vessel is breached

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  • sub-membranous collagen is exposed
  • platelet and coagulation factors are able to be activated = contact activation
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15
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Blood vessel secretes

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cytokines

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16
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ADP releases from

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Endothelium
- promotes platelet aggregation (Platelet plug)

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17
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Tissue thromboplastin (Tissue Factor/ Factor III) is released from

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vessel wall

  • initiates fibrin formation through extrinsic cascade (initiates secondary hemostasis)
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18
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PLT count normal

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150,000-400,000 uL

30% are sequestered in spleen as functional reserve

Aged or non-viable platelets are removed by the spleen and liver

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19
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Peripheral platelet zone

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Function: adhesion and aggregation

  • Open Canilicular system - helps in releasing granules
  • Glycoproteins on surface = Glycocalyx - contains blood group and tissue compatibility antigens
  • Surface provides help with fibrin clot formation: Factor V and VIII

Membrane is former demarcation of membrane parent

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20
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Phospholipids

Peripheral Zone

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  • Makes platelet sticky
  • Platelet Factor 3 - PF3 –> allows assembly of vitamin K dependent coagulation (secondary hemostasis)
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20
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Phospholipids

Peripheral Zone

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  • Makes platelet sticky
  • Platelet Factor 3 - PF3 –> allows assembly of vitamin K dependent coagulation (secondary hemostasis)
21
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Adhesion receptors

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GP1b –> Von Willebrand Factor (wWF)

Fibronectin

22
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Aggregation receptors

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GPIIb/IIIa (normally inaccessible)
- binds fibrinogen
- ADP
- Thrombin
- Epinephrine
- Collagen
- Thromoboxane A2 (TXA2
- Serotonin

23
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Sol-Gel Zone

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Function: Help support membrane

Cytoskeleton contains microfilaments and microtubules

Contractile proteins: Actin, myosin, actomyosin, and “thrombosthenin”

Capable of contracting within seconds

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Organelle Zone of platelet

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Function: metabolic reserve

Contains storage granules

Aid in protaglandin/Thromboxane A2 Synthesis

Dense tubular system

Mitochondroa
- 10-60/platelet
- Has glycogen (storage form of glucose)

25
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Alpha granules

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most numerous (up to 200/plt)

  • PLT specific proteins
  • Plasma proteins
26
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PLT specific proteins

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Stay on membrane post secretion

27
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Platelet factor 4

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inhibits heparin

28
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beta-thromboglobulin and platelet derived growth factor

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promotes vessel smooth muscle vessel

29
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thrombospondin

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promotes PLT-PLT interaction

30
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plasma proteins

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become soluble post secretion
- Albumin
- vWF
- Fibrinogen
- Plasminogen
- a2 antiplasmin

31
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vWF

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promotes adhesion

32
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Fibrimogen, Factor V, Factor III, high molecular weight kiniogen

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coagulation

33
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Plasminogen

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fibrinolysis

34
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alpha2 antiplasmin

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inhibits fibrinolysis

35
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Dense granules

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  • 2-10/plt
  • nonmetabolic ATP
  • nonmetabolic ADP - promtotes aggregation
  • calcium - regulates PLT activation/aggregation
  • serotonin - vasoconstriction
36
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Lysosomes

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Proteases
- breaks down protein/peptide

Hydrolyases
- uses water to break a chemical bond

Bactericidial enzymes

37
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Platelet plug formation

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Adhesion
Shape change
aggregation
Secretion Release

38
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Platelet plug - adhesion

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Reversible process where platelets stick to foreign surfaces

Subendothelium is exposed due to injuty
- composed of adhesive molecules: collagen, vWF and others

vWF attaches to platelet membrane GPIb = adhesion

39
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Platelet plug - shape change

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PLT becomes activated and changes from circle disc to “spiny” sphere-pseudopods Thromboplastin) to be accessible

40
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Platelet Plug - aggregation 1st wave

(GPIIb/IIIa-Fibrinogen-GP IIb/IIIA)

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Energy dependent process - requires ATP

Fibrinogen binds to the now usuable GPIIb/IIIa receptors

Bridges of fibrinogen and Ca2+ form between GPIIb/IIIa recepors on adjacent platelets = aggregation

41
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Platelet plug - 2nd wave

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Secretiojn requires a strong stimulus
- thrombin (from coagulation) is great candidate

Platelets secrete their granules - promotes Thromboxane A2 synthesis

Irreversible form, this point

Result = Viscous metamorphosis-transformation of irreversibly aggregated platelets into a mass of degenerative platelet material without membranes

42
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Thromboxane A2 (TXA2)

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  • Recruits more platelets (amplification) and activates them in helping to promote aggregation
  • Once TXA2 is used up, it becomes the inactive form TXB2
43
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Effects of Aspirin

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  • inhibits enzyme cyclo-oxygenase
  • this inhibits endoperoxide and Thromboxsane A2 synthesis
  • When thromboxane A2 synthesis is blocked, this prevents aggregation
44
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Platelet plug only provides temporary hold, so we need to reinforce it with fibrin

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secondary hemostasis

45
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Platelet aggregeometry

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PLT rich plasma and exogenous aggregating agents are added in a cuvette

As platelets aggregate and clump, more light is transmitted = decreasing optical density (absorbance)

% transmittance is recorded creating a pattern

46
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Plt count and peripheral smear

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  • PLT decrease in number in platelet count and visually on smear
  • Giant platelets
  • RBC fragments present from fibrin cutting in circulation
47
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Clot retraction

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After clot formaiton, the blood clot retracts (shrinks) and serum begins to seperate from the clot
- contractile proteins in platelet are responsiblr for clot retraction

Decreased/abnormal retraction can be due to
- thrombocytopenia
- Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia

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Platelet Function Assays

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Screens for platelets ability to adhere to collagen and aggregate together.

Whole blood is added to cartridges containing collagen and either ADP or epinephrine

Used as a screen for von Willebrand Disease, drug-related platelet inhibition and hereditary platelet defects. Also produces abnormal results with vascular disorders

49
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Platelet markers

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Provides proof of platelet activation
virtually absent in normal plasma

Ex:
- Beta Thromboglobulin
- Platelet Factor 4
- Thrombospondin
- Platelet Derived Growth Factor

50
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Ultimate goal of coagulation cascade

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Convert main substrate: fibrinogen (aka Factor I) into fibrin

51
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All factors are synthesized in the liver except

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vWF

PLT contents (alpha granules) are believed to have orig. from the plasma and not truly synthesized in the platelet.