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Title Women's issues in thrombosis and hemostasis / edited by Benjamin Brenner, Victor J. Marder, Jacqueline Conard
Published London : Martin Dunitz, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : illustrations
Contents ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Overview of hemostasis""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PLATELETS""; ""COAGULATION""; ""Extrinsic pathway""; ""Intrinsic pathway""; ""Common pathway""; ""Regulation of coagulation""; ""FIBRIN FORMATION AND FIBRINOLYSIS""; ""ENDOTHELIUM""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Introduction to the reproductive tract in women""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PELVIC VASCULATURE""; ""Clinical impact of pelvic vascular anatomy""; ""Pelvic hemorrhage""; ""Iliac vein compression syndrome (May-Thumer syndrome or Cockett�s syndrome)""; ""REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY""; ""OVARIAN HYPERSTIMULATION SYNDROME""
""Infertility""""The clinical syndrome""; ""RECURRENT PREGNANCY LOSS""; ""Genetic factors""; ""Uterine factors""; ""Endocrinological factors""; ""Autoimmune factors""; ""Multiple pregnancies""; ""New developments""; ""Low ovarian reserve""; ""Polycystic ovary syndrome""; ""Congenital thrombophilia""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Human gestation and pregnancy complications""; ""ANATOMY""; ""PLACENTAL FUNCTION""; ""Transfer""; ""Endocrine function""; ""Immunological function""; ""PRE-ECLAMPSIA""; ""Etiology""; ""Pathophysiology""; ""Diagnosis""; ""Manifestations""; ""Management""
""INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RESTRICTION""""Definition""; ""Etiology""; ""Risk""; ""Management""; ""PLACENTAL ABRUPTION""; ""Etiology""; ""Clinical presentation""; ""Coagulopathy""; ""Chronic placental abruption""; ""Fetal to maternal hemorrhage""; ""Management""; ""INTRAUTERINE FETAL DEATH""; ""Etiology and diagnostic work-up""; ""Management of fetal death""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 Laboratory assessment of hemorrhagic diathesis""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""APPROACH TO THE PATIENT""; ""Complete medical history""; ""Physical examination""; ""Laboratory evaluation""
""Exploration of platelet function defects""""Bleeding time""; ""Occlusion time""; ""Platelet aggregation assay""; ""Screening tests for hemostasis""; ""Global clotting tests""; ""Prothrombin time or Quick clotting time""; ""Activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT)""; ""Thrombin clotting time""; ""Reptilase clotting time""; ""Ecarine clotting time""; ""Transmittance waveform analysis""; ""Other tests""; ""Special tests to define the precise nature of the defect or the abnormality""; ""Thrombin generation test (thrombogram) and endogenous thrombin potential""; ""Thromboelastography""
""Dosage of coagulation factors (clotting activity and antigen levels)""""Prothrombin consumption""; ""Exploration of a circulating anticoagulant or specific inhibitor""; ""Investigation of hyperfibrinolysis""; ""Global fibrinolytic capacity""; ""D-Dimers""; ""INVESTIGATION OF THE HEMORRHAGIC SYNDROME""; ""Pathology of primary hemostasis""; ""Alterations in the vascular wall""; ""PLATELET DISORDERS""; ""Quantitative platelet disorders""; ""Thrombocytopenia due to decreased platelet production""; ""Acquired disorders of platelet production""; ""Hereditary platelet production disorders""
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Blood coagulation disorders.
Blood coagulation disorders in pregnancy.
Women -- Diseases.
Hemostasis.
Thrombosis.
Thrombosis
Hemostasis
Female
Blood Coagulation Disorders
MEDICAL -- Hematology.
Blood coagulation disorders
Blood coagulation disorders in pregnancy
Hemostasis
Thrombosis
Women -- Diseases
Form Electronic book
Author Brenner, Benjamin.
Marder, Victor J.
Conard, Jacqueline.
ISBN 0203306996
9780203306994
Other Titles Thrombosis and hemostasis