Lecture 21

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During blood vessel injury, what facilitates haemostasis?
ECs, platelets, fibrinogen cascade
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What is haemostasis?
The response of a blood vessel to injury
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What happens with haemostasis in healthy vessels?
Haemostasis inhibited by ECs
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How do ECs inhibit haemostasis?
Produce enzymatic and chemical inhibitors -> no prostacyclins, insulate tissues from blood, produce antithrombin
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What produces platelets?
Cytoplasmic fragmentation of mega karyocytes
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What happens when platelets are activated by extracellular proteins?
Secrete thromoxane Az, vasoactive amines, ADP
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What do platelet secretions promote?
Vasoconstriction, aggregationn
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What is the result of reduced platelets?
Purpura, haemorrhage
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What activates the coagulation cascade?
Hageman factor, thromboplasmin
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What is the penultimate step of coagulation?
Thrombin catalyses fibrinogen to fibrin
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What does fibrin form?
Meshwork around platelets
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When does thrombosis occur?
Inappropriate activation of haemostasis
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What are thrombi?
Fibrin, platelets, RBCs, WBCs
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Where can thrombi form?
Arteries, veins
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What are circulating thrombi called?
Embolus
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Where do blood clots form?
Static blood
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What changes happen to vessel walls after EC injury?
Inflammation, atherosclerosis, hypoxia, infection, damage, haemostasis
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What can vascular implants activate?
Coagulation, inflammation
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What are the three factors of Virchow's triad that cause thrombosis?
EC injury, hypercoagulability, abnormal blood flow
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What is the key cause of abnormal blood flow in arteries?
Turbulence
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What is the key cause of abnormal blood flow in veins?
Stasis
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What causes turbulence?
Narrowing, aneurysms, infarction, valve disease
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What causes stasis?
Failure of RV, compressed veins, varicose veins, viscosity
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What causes hypercoagulability?
Trauma -> acute phase response, genetic causes, cancer, smoking, hyperlipidaemia, contraceptives
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What is organisation?
Macrophages clean it
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What is recanalisation?
Blood vessels grow through thrombosis
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What are types of emboli?
Thrombus, fat, air, atheromatous plaque
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What are the effects of emboli?
Stenosis/occlusion/pulmonary infarction/systemic occlusion