[Hemostatic disorders in liver disease]

Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi. 2008 Apr-Jun;112(2):313-20.
[Article in Romanian]

Abstract

Hemorrhagic complications are common in patients with liver diseases and contribute to the morbidity and mortality associated to this condition. The liver plays a central role in the hemostatic process as here all clotting factors and their inhibitors are synthetized. Liver damage is commonly associated with variable impairment of hemostasis due to multiple causes: decreased synthesis of clotting and inhibitor factors, decreased clearance of activated factors, hyperfibrinolysis, accelerated intravascular coagulation, quantitative and qualitative platelet defects. Their clinical implications remain to be elucidated, so further studies addressing this issue are needed.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antithrombin III Deficiency / physiopathology
  • Blood Coagulation Factors / biosynthesis*
  • Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / physiopathology
  • Fibrinolysis
  • Hemostasis*
  • Hemostatic Disorders / etiology*
  • Hemostatic Disorders / physiopathology
  • Heparin Cofactor II / deficiency
  • Humans
  • Liver Diseases / complications*
  • Liver Diseases / physiopathology
  • Protein C Deficiency / physiopathology
  • Protein S Deficiency / physiopathology
  • Serine Proteinase Inhibitors / deficiency
  • Thrombocytopenia / etiology

Substances

  • Blood Coagulation Factors
  • Serine Proteinase Inhibitors
  • Heparin Cofactor II