HEMOSTASIS
Hemostasis
The process by which the body stops bleeding upon
injury and maintains blood in the fluid state in the
vascular compartment
Process is rapid and localized
HEMOSTASIS
The primary players in hemostasis include
Blood vessels
Platelets
Plasma proteins
Coagulation proteins –involved in clot formation
Fibrinolysis –involved in clot dissolution
HEMOSTASIS
Hemostasis can be divided into two stages
Primary hemostasis
Response to vascular injury
Formation of the “platelet plug”adhering to the endothelial wall
Limits bleeding immediately
Secondary Hemostasis
Results in formation of a stable clot
Involves the enzymatic activation of coagulation proteins that function
to produce fibrin as a reinforcement of the platelet plug
Gradually the stable plug will be dissolved by fibrinolysis
FORMATION OF A STABLE PLUG
Platelets
•Platelets are cell fragments Formed in bone marrow
from megakaryocytes
•Platelet lack nuclei
•Normal count 150-400,000 /microliter
•Platelet diameter 2-4 m
•Life span 8-12 days
•Stored in spleen (30%)
•peripheral blood(70)%
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DEVELOPMENT OF PLATELET
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Active cytoplasm
Cytoplasm has Actin + myosin
Enzyme synthesis + storage of calcium
Synthesis of prostaglandins
Dense granules containing ADP, ThromboxineII, serotonin
-Liver produces hormone thrombopoietin which increases the
number of platelets
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Platelets
Membrane
-coat of glycoproteinsadhesion to injured area
-phospholipids activation of intrinsic pathway of coagulation
-adenylatecyclase cAMP activate other platelets
Platelets
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PLATELETS
PLATELET FUNCTION
Platelets function to
Provide negatively charged surface for factor X and
prothrombin activation
Release substances that mediate vasoconstriction,
platlet aggregation, coagulation, and vascular repair
Provide surface membrane proteins to attach to other
platlets, bind collagen, and subendothelium
HEMOSTASIS
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•Hemostasis refers to the stoppage of
bleeding
•Actions that limit or prevent blood loss
include:
1. Blood vessel spasm
2. Platelet plug formation
(Adhesion and Aggregation)
3.Blood Coagulation
1. BLOODVESSELSPASM
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1. Blood vessel spasm
•Triggered by pain receptors (vasoconstrictor release from
nerve ending)
•Damaged endothelium releases endothelinthat constrict
the vessels
•Smooth muscle in blood vessel contracts
•Platelet release serotonin(vasoconstrictor)
ADHESION
Damage to endothelium exposes blood to the
subepithelial tissue matrix with adhesive molecules
Platlet receptor GPIb binds to subendothelium
collagen fibers through von Willebrand’s factor
(vWF)
Platlet adherence stops the initial bleeding
SHAPE CHANGE
Following vessel injury and platelet exposure to external
stimuli, platelets change shape from circulating discs to
spheres with pseudopods
Shape change is mediated by an increase in cytosolic
calcium
Exposure of platelet membrane phospholipids promotes
the assembly of vitamin-K dependent factors on the
platelet membrane surface
Activated platelets adhere to exposed collagen
CHANGE IN PLATLET SHAPE
SECRETION(Activation)
secretion of dense granules
Dense granules contain large amounts of ADP
ADP binds to the platelet membrane triggering the
synthesis and release of TXA
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The release of large amounts of ADP combined
with TXA
2amplifies the initial aggregation of
platelets into a large platelet mass
AGGREGATION
Platlet-to-platletinteraction
Begins 10-20 seconds after vascular injury and platlet
adhesion
Requires dense granule release from the adhering platlets
Requires Ca++and ATP
Requires fibrinogen and fibrinogen receptors GPIIband IIIa
Mechanism:
ADP released from platelet cytoplasm upon adherence
induces exposure of fibrinogen receptors GPIIband IIIa
Fibrinogen binds to the exposed GPIIband IIIa
Extracellular Ca++-dependent fibrinogen bridges form
between adjacent platelets, thereby promoting platelet
aggregation
PLATELETPLUGFORMATION
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FORMATION OF PRIMARY HEMOSTATIC PLUG
3. BLOODCOAGULATION
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3. Blood coagulation
•A blood clot forms via series of
reactions
•Blood coagulation mechanism are
1. Intrinsic pathway
2. Extrinsic pathway
CLOTTINGCASCADE
Series of steps involving 12 plasma clotting
factors that lead to final conversion of fibrinogen
into a stabilized fibrin mesh
Intrinsic pathway
Involves 7 separate steps
Starts when factor XII (Hageman factor)is
activated by coming into contact with
exposed collagen in injured vessel or foreign
surface such as glass test tube
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Blood Coagulation
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See Intrinsic Pathway
CLOTTINGCASCADE
Extrinsic pathway
Requires only 4 steps
Requires contact with tissue factors
external to the blood
Tissue thromboplastin–FactotIII
released from traumatized tissue
directly activates factor X
Factor III and factor VII are required
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COAGULATIONFACTORS
Liver and
Endothelial cell
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Blood Coagulation
See Extrinsic Pathway
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Clot Pathways
Intrinsic and Extrinsic
CLOTUNDER
MICROSCOPE
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SUMMARY
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what are the factors that
prevent blood clotting in
healthy
person ?
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FACTORSTHATPREVENTABLOOD
COAGULATION INHEALTHYPERSON
•The smooth lining of blood vessels
discourages the accumulation of platelets
and clotting factors
Endothelium releases many factors that act as anti
thrombotic and anticoagulant
Intact endothelium releases
Prostacyclin(PGI
2)-
ADP dephosphatase
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Inhibits
platelet
aggregation
FACTORSTHATPREVENTABLOOD
COAGULATION INHEALTHYPERSON
Plasmin –plasma protein produced by
liver, is present in blood in an inactive
form plasminogen
tPA –Tissue plasminogenactivator from
tissue converts plasminogen to plasmin
which causes degradation of fibrin
Applied –tPA genetically engineered is
used in myocardial infarction to dissolve
thrombus in coronary artery
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FACTORSTHATPREVENTA
BLOODCOAGULATION IN
HEALTHYPERSON
Heparin sulphate –bind and activate
antithrombinIII.
AntithrombinIII inactivate thrombin.
-Some cells such as basophilsand mast
cells secrete heparin (an anticoagulant)
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FATEOFBLOODCLOTS
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•After a blood clot forms it retracts and
pulls the edges of a broken blood vessel
together while squeezing the fluid serum
from the clot
•Platelet-derived growth factor stimulates
smooth muscle cells and fibroblasts to
repair damaged blood vessel walls
•Plasmin digests the blood clots
IMPORTANT
•A thrombusis an abnormal blood clot inside the blood
vessel
•An embolusis a blood clot moving through the blood
vessels
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CLINICALAPPLICATION
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ABNORMALBLOODCLOTTING
Thrombus
Abnormal intravasculaarclot attached to a vessel wall
Emboli
Freely floating clots
Factors that can cause thromboembolism
Roughened vessel surfaces associated with atherosclerosis
Imbalances in the clotting-anticlottingsystems
Slow-moving blood
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I. Hepatic failure
almost all clotting factors are made in the liver
II. Vitamin K deficiency
required for II (prothrombin), VII, IX, and X
III. Hemophilia
Factor VIII (hemophilia A 1/10,000),
IV. Factor IX (hemophilia B 1/100,000)
Coagulation Defects
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BLEEDINGDISORDER-
THROMBOCYTOPENIA
Thrombocytopenia
(decrease platelet)
There is bleeding in
small capillaries and
blood vessels, mucosa,
skin
ITP Idiopathic
thrombocytopenic
purpura -autoimmune
(common)
PURPURIC SPOTS ON
SKIN : minute
hemorrhages in
subcutaneous tissue
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Purpura
HEMOPHILIA
It is an X-linked disorder resulting from a
deficiency in factor VIII
Hemophilia Ais classic hemophilia (a disease
referring to the inability to clot blood).
Individuals with deficiencies infactor VIIIsuffer
Joint and muscle hemorrhage,
Easy bruising and
Prolonged bleeding occurs from wounds.
Treatment of hemophilia A is accomplished by
infusion of factor VIII concentrates prepared from
either human plasma or by recombinant DNA
technology.
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HEMOPHILIA
It’s a X
linked
recessive
disease
Females
are
carriers
Male
suffer
from
disease.
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HEMOPHILIAB
Hemophilia Bresults from deficiencies in factor IX.
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REGULATIONOFTHEAGGREGATE STATEOF
BLOOD
Normally, there is no intravascular blood clotting or
it occurs to a small extent. The fragile process of
the regulation of blood coagulation involves many
factors and systems:
• Presence of the inhibitors of pro-coagulants in
plasma.
• Many factors are in the inactive state.
• The concentration of pro-coagulants decreases
due to fibrinolysis. Therefore, a thrombus is not
formed in the blood vessels of fast blood flow but
develops in the blood vessels of low blood flow.
• Pro-coagulants are inactive in the blood.
REGULATIONOFTHEAGGREGATE STATEOF
BLOOD
On the whole, the mechanism of the regulation of
coagulation is neuro-humoral. In the body there are
special chemoreceptors reacting to the
concentrations of thrombin, plasmin, and other
factors of the coagulation and antico-agulation
systems in the blood.
The stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system
increases the speed of blood coagulation
(hypercoagulation).
It is pronounced in stress, pain, and is
accompanied by the collateral release of adrenalin.