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coagulopathy /co·ag·u·lop·a·thy/ (ko-ag″u-lop´ah-the) any disorder of blood coagulation. consumption coagulopathy disseminated intravascular coagulation.
Coagulopathy A disorder in which blood is either too slow or too quick to coagulate (clot). Mentioned in: Cerebral Palsy coagulopathy [kō·ag′yəlop′əthē] a pathologic condition that affects the ability of the blood to coagulate. coagulopathy any disorder of blood coagulation. See also hemophilia. consumption coagulopathy a bleeding tendency due to a reduction in clotting factors caused by their utilization. See also disseminated intravascular coagulation. disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) see disseminated intravascular coagulation. hepatic coagulopathy 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. coagulopathy Hematology A clotting defect in which bleeding does not stop in the usual time period Etiology Hemophilia, drug-induced defects–eg, aspirin, thrombocytopenia, liver disease, Von Willebrand's disease. See Consumption
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After the diagnosis was achieved, the second issue raised by our patients was the need to rapidly treat their coagulation disturbance as they both required emergent surgical intervention for surgical decompression of the hematoma and removal of a bone flap for the treatment of increased ICP in our first patient and for ventriculostomy placement to treat obstructive hydrocephalus in the second case. Table 1 Etiology of the coagulation disturbance in patients receiving recombinant factor VIIa No. |
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