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| Preface General Hemostasis | |
| Schematic Presentation of the Hemostatic System | |
| Proposals For Investigation and Sampling Instructions | |
| Increased bleeding tendency | |
| Screening analyses | |
| Venous thromboembolism | |
| Arterial thromboembolism | |
| Preanalytical consideration to note in the patient prior to sampling | |
| Resting before sampling, position at sampling, sampling occasion etc | |
| Laboratory Investigation | |
| Nomenclature | |
| Reference intervals for laboratory investigations | |
| Screening analyses | |
| Pt-Bleeding time | |
| B/CB-PLT (platelet particle concentrations equals number of platelets) | |
| P-APT-time (activated partial thromboplastin time) | |
| P-B/CB-Prothrombin complex | |
| P-B/CB-Pt (INR) | |
| Special analyses | |
| Coagulation factors | |
| Anticoagulants | |
| Natural coagulation inhibitors | |
| Platelet function | |
| Fibrinolysis | |
| Markers for coagulant activation (Hyper-coagulation markers) | |
| DNA analyses | |
| DNA analysis of hemophilia A and B | |
| DNA analysis in thrombotic disorders | |
| Useful components in research studies | |
| Other non-hemostatic variables of importance | |
| Imaging Diagnostic Procedures Bleeding Disorders | |
| Hereditary Bleeding Disorders Severe Forms | |
| Factor concentrates used in treatment of hemophilia A, B and VWD | |
| Treatment strategy in severe forms of hemophilia and VWD | |
| Painkilling drugs allowed in hemophilia and VWD | |
| Side effects above all at treatment of severe forms of hereditary bleeding disorders | |
| Treatment principles for different forms of bleeding disorders (severe, moderate and milder forms of hemostatic defects) | |
| Delivery | |
| Treatment with tranexamic acid | |
| Severe platelet function defects e.g. thrombastenia Glanzmann | |
| Mild Hemostatic Defects | |
| General remarks | |
| Treatment in general | |
| Treatment with desmopressin (Octostim) | |
| Blood sampling in hemophilia patients | |
| Bleeding risk charts (suggestion for) | |
| Serious Non-Hereditary Bleedings | |
| Introduction | |
| Massive bleedings | |
| Transfusion coagulopathy | |
| Treatment | |
| Complicating factors | |
| Investigations Of Increased Bleeding Tendency | |
| Background | |
| Diagnosis | |
| Suggested questions for bleeding history | |
| Laboratory tests (see also above) | |
| Explanations for pathological screening analyses and further actions | |
| Prolonged bleeding time | |
| Thrombocytopenia | |
| Prolonged APT-time | |
| Elevated PT (INR) | |
| Investigations of bleeding tendency; practical aspects | |
| Thromboembolic Disorders | |
| Venous Thrombosis And Pulmonary Embolism | |
| Introduction | |
| Diagnosis of venous thrombosis | |
| Tools for confirming or discarding a clinical suspicion of a venous thrombosis | |
| Superficial thrombophlebitis | |
| Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism | |
| Tools for confirming or excluding clinical suspicion of pulmonary embolism | |
| Non Pharmacological Treatment Of Dvt And Pe | |
| Drug Treatment In Dvt And Pe | |
| Heparin (UFH) and low molecular weigh heparin (LMH) | |
| Treatment of superficial thrombophlebitis | |
| Bleeding complications in treatment with UFH and LMH | |
| Thrombolytical treatment | |
| Thrombolytic drugs | |
| Bleeding complications in thrombolytic treatment | |
| Secondary prophylaxis against DVT and PE with AVK drugs | |
| Practical advice: patients treated with AVK drugs | |
| Elective adjustment of PT(INR) prior to risk situations e.g. tooth extraction, surgery etc | |
| Bleeding during treatment with UFH/LMH, thrombin inhibitors and pentasaccarides | |
| Primary Prophylaxis Against Dvt And Pe | |
| Arterial Thromboembolism | |
| Ischemic heart disease | |
| Unstable angina pectoris/non ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NONSTEMI) | |
| ST-elevating myocardial infarction (STEMI) | |
| Cardiac arrhythmias (atrial fibrillation) | |
| Peripheral artery diseases | |
| Surgery on peripheral arteries | |
| Cerebral ischemia | |
| Thrombolysis in stroke | |
| Recurrent TIA | |
| Investigations Of Thromboembolic Tendency | |
| Special Hemostasis | |
| Hemostatic Defects In Obstetrics And Gynecology | |
| Thrombosis during pregnancy | |
| Treatment in acute DVT/PE during pregnancy and at partus | |
| Breast feeding | |
| Special cases | |
| Treatment of women with mechanical heart valve prothesis | |
| Thromboprophylaxis during pregnancy, partus and post partum | |
| Dosage of LM-heparin (LMH) in thromboprophylaxis | |
| Thromboprophylaxis at Caesarean section | |
| Obstetric epidural/spinal analgesia (anaesthesia) | |
| Complications during pregnancy | |
| Thromboprophylaxis in legal and spontaneous abortions | |
| Thromboprophylaxis in gynecological surgery | |
| Oral contraceptives, hormone substitution and surgery | |
| Investigation prior to artificial insemination | |
| Investigation prior to oral contraceptives, advice concerning oral contraceptives | |
| Investigation prior to post-climacteric substitution treatment (HRT=hormone replacement therapy) | |
| Investigation in repeated miscarriages | |
| Investigation in menorrhagia | |
| Hemostatic Defects In Children | |
| Bleedings | |
| Introduction | |
| Bleeding in newborns | |
| Coagulation factor deficiencies | |
| Acquired bleeding tendency | |
| Thromboembolic disease in children | |
| Introduction | |
| Venous thrombosis | |
| Sinus thrombosis | |
| Arterial thrombosis | |
| Stroke | |
| Emergency Conditions Associated With Activation Of Coagulation | |
| Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) | |
| Definition | |
| Pathophysiology | |
| Clinical picture | |
| Laboratory diagnosis | |
| Treatment | |
| Coagulatopathy in septic shock | |
| Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia | |
| Thrombotic microangiopathies (TTP and HUS) | |
| List of components and analyses | |
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