Essential Guide to Blood Coagulation (eBook)

Edited by Jovan P. Antovic and Margareta Blombäck Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Coagulation Research, Karolinska Institutet; Clinical Chemistry, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

List of contributors

Preface

Abbreviations

PART 1: General hemostasis

1 Schematic presentation of the hemostatic system
Nils Egberg

2 Proposals for sampling instructions
Margareta Blombäck, Nils Egberg

3 Laboratory investigations
Jovan P. Antovic, Liselotte Onelöv, Nils Egberg

PART 2: Bleeding disorders

4 Hereditary bleeding disorders
Margareta Holmström, Lars-Göran Lundberg

5 Critical bleeding
Maria Bruzelius, Anna Ågren, Hans Johnsson

6 Investigation of increased bleeding tendency
Margareta Holmström, Lars-Göran Lundberg

PART 3: Thromboembolic disorders

7 Venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
Anders Carlsson

8 Investigations of thromboembolic tendency
Margareta Holmström

9 Heart disease
Håkan Wallen, Rickard Linder

10 Antiplatelet drug therapy and reversal of its effects
Håkan Wallen, Hans Johnsson, Bo-Michael Bellander

11 Stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA)
Nils Wahlgren, Mia von Euler

12 Peripheral artery surgery
Jesper Swedenborg

13 New oral anticoagulants (NOACs): focus on currently approved oral factor Xa and thombin inhibitors Rickard E. Malmström, Hans Johnsson

PART 4: Special hemostasis

14 Hemostasis in obstetrics and gynecology
Katarina Bremme

15 Hemostatic defects in children
Pia Petrini, Susanna Ranta

16 Emergency conditions associated with coagulation: DIC, HIT and TTP/HUS
Jovan P. Antovic, Margareta Holmström

"Nevertheless, this book could one day become the
'oxford handbook' - equivalent for
coagulation." (The Haem Trainee, 1
August2013)

"This book would be useful to those wanting an
introduction to coagulation disorders. More experienced
practitioners will likely find its treatment of coagulation
disorders too superficial for their needs."
(Doody's, 23 August 2013)