Blood coagulation and bleeding time question?!
Question: i know prolonged bleeding or delayed/non-existant clotting time can indicate hemophilia or a platelet disorder.
but what sort of disease is indictaed by an unusually short bleeding time? or if their blood coagulates too quickly?
Answers: i know prolonged bleeding or delayed/non-existant clotting time can indicate hemophilia or a platelet disorder.
but what sort of disease is indictaed by an unusually short bleeding time? or if their blood coagulates too quickly?
The "bleeding and clotting time" test are notoriously imprecise and are rarely used anymore.
A short bleeding/clotting time most likely is due to improper technique. Has no clinical significance.
Hypercoagulation is a clinical condition and can lead to clots forming in the circulating blood.
here is some info:
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/ar...
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Hypercoagulable state: A hypercoagulable state is the medical term for a condition in which there is an abnormally increased tendency toward blood clotting (coagulation).
There are numerous hypercoagulable states. Each has different causes and each increases a person's chances of developing blood clots such as those associated with thrombophlebitis (clot in the veins).
Causes of hypercoagulable states include medications (female hormones, estrogens and birth control pills), after surgery (post- operative period, especially hip, knee, and urinary system procedures), pregnancy, phospholipid antibodies in blood (anticardiolipin antibodies, lupus anticoagulant), cancer (though most patients with a hypercoagulable state do not have cancer), elevated blood homocysteine levels, and inherited protein deficiencies (antithrombin III, factor V Leiden, protein S, protein C, and others).