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TRIAD OF VIRCHOW
R. Ross. Atherosclerosis. NEJM 340:115-126, 1999
TROMBOSIS
Trombosis Arteri Trombosis Vena
Faktor Risiko
2. Jumlah trombosit
3. Fibrinogen
4. PT, APTT, TT
VIIIa
Protein C +
Protein S
X Xa
Va V Positive Feedback
Fibrinogen Fibrin
XIII
Fibrinolytic
Cross-linked fibrin
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cascade
Thrombosis
Inappropriate activation of haemostatic
mechanisms
E.g. uninjured vessel or very minor injury
Definition:
formation of solid mass of blood constituents within
vascular system in life
Virchows triad:
1. changes in the vessel wall
2. changes in blood flow
3. changes in the blood constituents
Changes in the vessel wall
Primarily damage to intimal surface (endothelium)
Causes of endothelial cell injury:
ulcerated atherosclerotic plaques
scarred valves in endocarditis / prosthetic valves
radiation, cigarette smoke, cholesterol/lipids
Results of endothelial cell injury:
exposed subendothelial extracellular matrix
platelet activation
activation of coagulation cascade
depletion of antiplatelet, anticoagulant and fibrinolytic
functions
endothelial activation activation of procoagulant functions
Endothelium
Antithrombotic Procoagulant functions
functions
Antiplatelet
Adenosine diphosphatase
( ADP) Production of vWF
Prostacyclin and nitric
oxide (also vasodilation) Production of tissue factor
Anticoagulant Binding of factors IXa and
Heparin-like molecules Xa
(activate antithrombin III)
Thrombomodulin
(activates protein C)
Protein S synthesis
Fibrinolytic
t-PA
Changes in blood flow
Normal flow is laminar
cells in centre of blood stream
clear zone of plasma adjacent to endothelium
Disrupted flow is static or turbulent
Stasis
Platelets in contact with endothelium
Prevent dilution of clotting factors
Retard inflow of clotting factor inhibitors
e.g. myocardial infarct, aneurysm, atrial fibrillation,
hyperviscosity syndromes
Turbulence
Eddy currents with local pockets of stasis
Promote endothelial cell injury
e.g. ulcerated atherosclerotic plaque
Changes in blood constituents
Hypercoagulability
Leads to recurrent venous thrombosis, arterial thrombosis,
recurrent abortion and stillbirths
Inherited (see table overleaf) or Acquired (below)
oral contraceptive use
pregnancy / hyperoestrogenic states
malignancy - elaboration of a procoagulant factor, leading to arterial
and venous thrombosis (Trousseaus syndrome)
tissue damage surgery, trauma, burns
Hyperviscosity
predisposes to stasis in small vessels
polycythaemia) / deformed RBCs (sickle cell anaemia)
Presence of endothelial cell toxins
toxins in cigarette smoke, high levels of lipid or cholesterol
predispose to endothelial cell injury
Anti-phospholipid autoantibodies bind plasma proteins with affinity for
syndrome phospholipid surfaces, including coagulation factors
associated with SLE
Factor V Leiden most common inherited form of hypercoagulability
mutation present in 5% of Caucasians
mutant factor V resistant to protein C inactivation
Elevated factor VIII as common as factor V Leiden mutation
genetic and environmental factors including OCP use
Protein C, Protein S, autosomal dominantly inherited deficiencies of
antithrombin III anticoagulant factors
deficiencies
Homocystinemia elevated plasma homocysteine levels
also increased rick of atherosclerosis
Prothrombin mutation increases the level and activity of prothrombin
Embolus migrates from deep leg veins through venous system to pulmonary
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circulation
Pulmonary Thromboembolism
Small:
silent due to collateral bronchial artery flow
organization with cumulative damage (idiopathic
pulmonary hypertension)
Medium:
pulmonary infarct with acute respiratory and cardiac
symptoms
Large:
right heart failure & collapse (>60% pulm circ)
Massive:
sudden death e.g. saddle embolus
angioplasty
Iliac stenosis post angioplasty and stent
In situ thrombosis - aortic occlusion
Risk factors?
Symptoms?
Treatment?
Outcome?
Murmur maybe no