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Bleeding Disorders: MedlinePlus

Bleeding Disorders

URL of this page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bleedingdisorders.html

 

Also called: Clotting disorders, Hypercoagulability 

 

 

Normally, if you get hurt, your body forms a blood clot to stop the bleeding. For blood to clot, your body needs cells called platelets and proteins known as clotting factors. If you have a bleeding disorder, you either do not have enough platelets or clotting factors or they don't work the way they should.

Bleeding disorders can be the result of other diseases, such as severe liver disease. They can also be inherited. Hemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder. Bleeding disorders can also be a side effect of medicines.

MEDICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA  

• Antithrombin III
• Bleeding disorders
• Bleeding into the skin
• Bleeding time
• Blood clots
• Blood clotting
• Cavernous sinus thrombosis
• Congenital afibrinogenemia
• Congenital antithrombin III deficiency
• Congenital protein C or S deficiency
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  Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) Euglobulin lysis time Factor II assay Factor II deficiency Factor V assay Factor V deficiency Factor VII assay Factor VII deficiency Factor X assay Factor X deficiency Factor XII (Hageman factor) deficiency Factor XII assay Fibrin degradation products Fibrinogen Fibrinopeptide A Hemoglobinuria Hemorrhagic disease of the newborn Hypercoagulable states Lupus anticoagulants Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome Partial thromboplastin time (PTT) Primary or secondary fibrinolysis Protein C Protein electrophoresis - serum Protein S Prothrombin time (PT) RBC nuclear scan

  

  

Related Topics

• Blood Thinners
• Hemophilia
• Blood, Heart and Circulation

National Institutes of Health

• The primary NIH organization for research on Bleeding Disorders is the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute