Coagulation defects — also known as bleeding disorders and blood clotting disorders — are problems with your blood’s ability to form clots. The defects can involve your blood vessels and the cells and ...

Critical pathways exist in many hospitals for treating patients with a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Some pathways call for “baseline laboratory studies,” including ...

THE primary purpose of this report is to describe the salutary effect of pregnancy on the coagulation defect due to factor X (Prower-Stuart factor) deficiency in a recently diagnosed case of this ...

A new review article illuminates why physicians should keep coagulation disorders in mind when evaluating patients with heavy abnormal uterine bleeding. Physicians treating patients with heavy ...

Clotting is what prevents excessive bleeding when you cut yourself. But the blood moving through your vessels shouldn’t clot. If such clots form, they can travel through your bloodstream to your heart ...

Thirteen patients with liver disease and an abnormal prothrombin time refractory to vitamin K therapy were studied (Tables 1 and 2). None of the patients were actively bleeding, and none had received ...