BACKGROUND The most common and best known hereditary coagulopathies are hemophilia A and B followed by von Willebrand Disease. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of tooth loss and investigate its association with demographic and socioeconomic data, as well as to discuss self-reported oral morbidity and use of health services by patients with coagulopathies treated in blood ...

To determine the coagulation defects associated with massive blood transfusions, coagulation studies were performed on 21 battle casualties admitted to the US Naval Support Activity Hospital, Da Nang, Vietnam. All but one patient who received less than 20 units of Acid-Citrate-Dextrose blood (7 patients) did not develop a coagulopathy. All patients who received more than 20 units (14 patients) ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The use of the ultrasound to guide the puncture in peripheral nerve blocks has become increasingly more frequent. With the lower probability of promoting vascular damage the ultrasound has become an interesting tool in peripheral nerve blocks especially in patients in use of anticoagulants or with coagulopathies. The objective of this article was to report two cases in...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Preeclampsia affects 3% to 8% of pregnancies and increases risk of pregnancy-associated stroke (PAS). Data are limited on which women with preeclampsia are at highest risk for PAS. METHODS Using billing data from the 2003 to 2012 New York State Department of Health inpatient database, we matched women with preeclampsia and PAS 1:3 to preeclamptic controls based on age a...

Copyright © 2014 Massachusetts Medical Society. The definition of coagulopathy is “a condition in which the blood’s ability to clot is impaired.” However, for some clinicians, the term also covers thrombotic states, and because of the complexity of the hemostatic pathways, the two conditions can exist simultaneously. Some practitioners would consider that mildly abnormal results on coagulation ...

DOI: 10.5581/1516-8484.20130112 According to the Brazilian Ministry of Health the cross-sectional studies are important in health policy as the improvement of information systems allowing a diagnosis of the health situation of the population with epidemiological information obtained from primary data(1). Regarding oral health, the diagnosis of dental caries and periodontal disease should be est...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has evolved dramatically over the past two years, and literature on coagulopathy been overwhelming, which complicates process of understanding or assessing quality data available. objective this narrative review was to highlight analyze reported COVID-19-induced its outcomes in patients with severe critical disease years pandemic.