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coagulopathy

(kō-ăg'yə-lŏp'ə-thē)
n.

A disease affecting the coagulability of the blood.

 
 
Veterinary Dictionary: coagulopathy

Any disorder of blood coagulation. See also hemophilia.

  • consumption c. — a bleeding tendency due to a reduction in clotting factors caused by their utilization. See also disseminated intravascular coagulation.
  • disseminated intravascular c. (DIC) — see disseminated intravascular coagulation.
  • hepatic c. — impaired synthesis of most clotting factors, including factors I, II, V, VII, IX and X, as well as other substances involved in the fibrinolytic system, in severe liver disease can cause significant abnormalities in coagulation.
 
Wikipedia: coagulopathy
Coagulopathy
Classification & external resources
ICD-10 D65.-D68.
ICD-9 286
DiseasesDB 29158
MeSH D001778

Coagulopathy is a medical term for a defect in the body's mechanism for blood clotting. While there are several possible causes they generally result in excessive bleeding and a lack of clotting.

Hemophilia is one type of congenital disease characterized by coagulopathy; these are examples of severe lack of blood clotting.

Acquired causes of coagulopathy include anticoagulation with warfarin, liver failure, and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Additionally, the haemotoxic venom from certain species of snakes can cause this condition eg Bothrops, rattlesnakes and other species of viper.

See also

  • Coagulation


Pathology: hematology (primarily C81-C96/200-208, D45-D47, D50-D77/280-289)
WBCs hematological malignancy (Lymphoma, leukemia)
-cytosis (Agranulocytosis, Leukocytosis, Lymphocytosis, Monocytosis) • -penia (Lymphopenia, Neutropenia)
RBCs/anemia/
hemoglobinopathy		 nutritional anemia: Iron deficiency anemia, Plummer-Vinson syndrome, Megaloblastic anemia (Pernicious anemia)
hereditary hemolytic anemia: G6PD Deficiency, Thalassemia, Sickle-cell disease/trait, Hereditary spherocytosis, Hereditary elliptocytosis, Hereditary stomatocytosis
acquired hemolytic anemia: Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia, HUS, MAHA, PNH
aplastic anemia: Acquired PRCA, Diamond-Blackfan anemia, Fanconi anemia • Sideroblastic anemia • Hemochromatosis
Coagulation/platelets coagulopathy: DIC • Hemophilia (A, B, C, XIII) • Von Willebrand disease
Purpura: Henoch-Schönlein, ITP, TTP
primary hypercoagulable state: Protein C deficiency - Protein S deficiency - Antithrombin III deficiency
other hemorrhagic conditions: Bernard-Soulier syndrome - Glanzmann's thrombasthenia - Grey platelet syndrome
Histiocytosis WHO-I Langerhans cell histiocytosis - non-Langerhans-cell histiocytosis/WHO-II (Juvenile xanthogranuloma, Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis) - malignant histiocytic disorders/WHO-III (Acute monocytic leukemia, Malignant histiocytosis, Erdheim-Chester disease)
Other Asplenia/hyposplenism - Methemoglobinemia

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Medical Dictionary. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company.  Read more
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