ITP is a blood disorder that causes bruising and excessive bleeding, it is caused by your platelets getting too low, making your blood not clot correctly. When people with ITP get really low platelets their blood will be very slow to clot making Internal bleeding or bleeding on or under the skin result. ITP usually occurs when the immune system produces antibodies against platelets. Symptoms include easy or excessive bruising, bleeding from the gums or nose, and blood in the urine or stool. ITP is caused by a genetic mutation, some types of inherited thrombocytopenia are easy to find. The platelets can be almost as large as red blood cells or very small. Sometimes it is very difficult to diagnose or go undiagnosed because there are no specific
Three hundred and thirty-four years later in the future, Carl Landsteiner, a Viennese doctor, performed a very simple experiment with blood in 1901. During his experiment, Landsteiner noticed "clotting in some samples of mixed blood and not others". (Tucker, 10) Landsteiner separated his samples into three groups: A, B, and C, according to how they clotted in his experiment. Today, the blood type C is known as type O blood. When Landsteiner was grouping these blood types, he happened to look over type AB. AB occurs in about 3 percent of the population. Later in 1907, two researchers, Jan Jansky in Czechoslovakia and William Lorenzo Moss in the United
A complete blood count was done for this patient upon admission in order to give a baseline to help guide his care. The blood count was also done to show how his hematological system was affected by the trauma that he suffered in the motor vehicle accident he was in. If the patient was hemodynamically unstable, he may have needed blood transfusions to bring his blood counts up. White blood cells could help to tell is the patient has an infection in his surgical wound. The patient also underwent surgery to correct the injury to his spine, causing more blood to be lost in the process. The platelet, hemoglobin, and hematocrit counts could help to show in the future if the patient is suffering from internal bleeding after the surgery he had.
Many people throughout the world visit the United States every year to receive medical treatment. This is due to our excellent pharmaceutical industry as it spends million of dollars and many hours of research to come up with what we can only describe as “miracle” drugs and treatments. Part of the success of many of these medications is because the pharmaceutical industry is highly regulated by policies that protect the public from accessing drugs that have not been fully tested and found to be “safe”. However, this was not the case until the late 1990s and early 2000s. One time in history that highly influenced the strict regulations we currently have was the nationwide contamination of patients through blood transfusion or by consuming medications
In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, blood gives the boys feelings of power and control through violence. For instance, after the hunters successfully kill a pig, Jack “giggled and flicked them [his hands] while the boys laughed at his reeking palms. Then Jack grabbed Maurice and rubbed the stuff [blood] over his cheeks” (135). Maurice is not a leader on the island and he is entirely comfortable with being a follower and not making decisions for himself. Jack, on the other hand, has more power in island politics and Maurice could arguably be his subordinate; therefore, the smearing of the blood over Maurice’s face is Jack demonstrating his control over him. Another example of the use of blood as a symbol of control is when a lightning storm
Cohen, R., Garcia, C.A., Mena, D., Castellanos, M., Wu L.T. (April 2012). “Case Review: Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura.” Journal of Medical Cases: Vol. 3, No. 2.
Hemophilia is a genetic bleeding disorder. People who have hemophilia have a deficiency or an absence of a coagulation protein. A blood clotting factor is deficient or absent. Bleeding is most often into joints, such as the knee, elbow, or ankle, but bleeding can occur anywhere in the body. People with hemophilia bleed longer, not faster.
To stop the blood flow after damage, body uses three ways to maintain hemostasis; vascular spasm, platelet plug formation, and coagulation. Coagulation is an important process to prevent loss of blood when blood vessels are cut or damaged. Blood clot is a plug of platelet reinforce with the mesh of fibrin. However, a person with Disseminated intravascular coagulation, DIC, the blood clots have formed throughout the blood vessels when does not necessary. It leads to organ damages due to blocked blood vessels; furthermore, it leads to life-threatening bleeding due to wasting clotting factors and platelets when they are needed.
The ethical and legal issues raised in this case are related to autonomy and beneficence. In health care, autonomy is the right of a competent patient to make informed decisions about the type of health care they would like to receive. This principle is founded on the concept of obtaining consent from the patient before administering any medication or medical procedure. Autonomy provides that a patient who has no mental incapacity has the right to decide whether to agree to medical treatment. This right is not restricted to what others consider as sensible provided the patient has the capacity to make the decisions.
The patient has noted that over the past several weeks that he discovered more bruises or even ecchymosis all over his body. The patient has found small red marks around his eyes, the next morning. The patient was self-diagnosing himself, however due to the doctors, the patient has thrombocytopenia that he diagnoses with recently. Thrombocytopenia is a blood disorder that has insufficient platelets in the blood stream. The disease is one of the most common results that are in hospital patients who tend to bleed, then it will stop bleeding and clump up the blood vessels. If any reason an individual platelet falls below normal, then the condition will develop called Thrombocytopenia. The cause of this disorder, (Thrombocytopenia, n.d.) “thrombocytopenia can be inherited or it can be caused by numerous conditions or even drugs”. Thrombocytopenia symptoms are from; bruising, an enlarged spleen. Excessive bleeding on the menstrual cycle, nose bleeds, and jaundice. The enlarged spleen has too many platelets causing it to decrease. The disease also consists of leukemia or a viral infection. The increased breakdown that is caused by some things with the condition. Also serve options lead to a transfusion or finding an underlying. Nevertheless, thrombocytopenia cannot be prevented although, at the same time some conditions of thrombocytopenia can be avoided. By avoiding alcohol and if a person
Hemophillia is a rare bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot normally. Hemophillia is usually inherited and people born with it have little or no clotting factor (a protein needed for normal blood clotting). These proteins work together with platelets to help the blood clot. When blood vessels are injured, clotting factors help platelets stick together to plug cuts and breaks on the vessels. Hemophillia usually occurs in males with about 1 in every 5 000 males being born with the disease each year. A hemophiliac does not bleed more intensely than a person without it but can bleed for a much longer time. In some severe cases, continuous bleeding occurs after minor trauma or can even happen spontaneously.They may also bleed inside their body(internally), especially in the knees, ankles, and elbows. The bleeding can damage organs and tissues and may be life threatening. There are two main types of hemophilia: A and B. People born with type A are missing or have low levels of clotting factor VIII (1 in 5 000 males). People born with type B are missing or have low levels of clotting factor IX (1 in 20 000 males). About 8 out of 10 people who have hemophillia have type A. The greatest concern for both types is deep internal bleeding and bleeding into joints. Hemophilia is a life long disease, but with proper treatment and self-care, most people maintain an active productive lifestyle.
A person with hemophilia faces great problems. Any little scrap or cut even burse can give the person a hard time. With this condition a person faces prolonging bleeding. Surgery or evening getting a tooth pulled isn’t a great idea. This condition causes the blood clotting process to slow down. If you have this disorder you’ll be sure to know. You have be playing a street game of football one minute fall and scrap you’re your knee the next. And be hospitalizing at the end of the day. Even serious complication can result in bleeding into the joint, muscle, brain or other internal organs (U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2012) . You may not know if you have hemophilia until abnormal bleeding occurs after a serious injury or surgery. This may be hard for someone to take in.
Immediately after wounding, the first phase of hemostatsis sets in motion with vascular constriction which restricts the blood flow in the blood vessels followed by the platelets plug formation which creates a temporary blockage of blood flow and then coagulation takes place with fibrin clot formation. The clot and surrounding tissue release pro-inflammatory growth factors and cytokines such as transforming growth factor (TGF)-13, platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and epidermal growth factor (EGF).
In Blood In Blood Out is a drama directed by Taylor Hackford, and starring Damian Chapa (Miklo), Benjamin Bratt (Paco), and Jesse Borrego (Cruz), produced by Hollywood Pictures. The film was based off everyday life in East Los Angeles, from the 1970’s through the 1980’s. Damian Chapa stars as Miklo in the film, a Mexican-American who wanted to be accepted, not by his skin but for the Mexican within him. Benjamin Bratt (Paco) was the older cousin of Miklo, who learned his lesson throughout the movie and changed his ways. Jesse Borrego (Cruz) is the step-brother of Paco who was a talent artist, who ended up turning to drugs because of back problems caused by a rival gang incident.
Hemophilia is the result of having factor VIII or factor IX deficiency. Factor VIII and IX are two types of clotting factor which help the body stop a bleed. The KidsHealth article “Hemophilia” explains that when a child falls and scrapes his knee, “platelets go to where the bleeding is and plug up the hole.” These platelets release chemicals that attract proteins called clotting factors to “form fibers [that] make the clot stronger and stop the bleeding.” However, a child with hemophilia is missing one of his twelve clotting factors, which are labeled with roman numerals I through XII, and the clotting factor he does have cannot form strong enough fibe...
Blood grouping is a test to determine blood group of a person. Before blood transfusion or if you plan to donate blood, the test is important. Blood A cannot mix with blood B or blood AB so blood group is important to be known.A dangerous immune response will occur if receive blood that is not compatible with own blood type. The human immune system will destroy the incompatible blood type.