What you need to know about the blood clotting system?
When the normal blood clotting process is disrupted, the risk of a number of complications increases. The pathological process can form blood clots in the veins, cause deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, damage the brain, intestines, kidneys and other vital organs.
During trauma or injury, when the integrity of the skin is broken, blood flows. At this time, critical components of the body's blood are activated and slow down, stop the bleeding. Bleeding is stopped by the intervention of blood plasma, platelets and other factors. Each of these components functions according to different principles, but overall they serve one purpose, namely, to thicken the blood to the point where the bleeding stops.
When the blood clotting process in the body is disrupted, a person loses a life-threatening amount of blood. Keep in mind that blood clotting is a normal process of recovery, a response to trauma, however, if blood clots form completely without a cause, that is, without the influence of external factors, the diagnosis is a hypercoagulable state.
A hypercoagulable state means that the blood is clotting pathologically. In such clinical cases, patients are treated with special anticoagulant medications.
Hemostasis (blood clotting system) ensures the maintenance of the liquid state of blood in the body and also protects organs, tissues, and various systems from blood loss by forming a fibrin clot in the event of blood vessel damage.
A classic example of a congenital bleeding disorder caused by a deficiency of plasma clotting factors is hemophilia.
Source:
https://lindenbergcancer.com/blog/what-are-the-most-common-blood-clot-disorders/
