Coagulopathy

As coagulopathy (from the Latin coagulatio " clotting " and of Greek and πάθος, páthos "suffering ( company), addiction, pathos " ) is used in medicine refers to a disorder of blood coagulation ( hemostasis ), to an increased bleeding tendency ( bleeding diathesis ) leads. Coagulopathies are by definition caused by a deficiency of coagulation factors. The mucosal bleeding time is not prolonged in contrast to platelet disorders.

It can be congenital from acquired causes as well as quantitative (absence or reduction of clotting factors ) and quality (defects of the clotting factors ) coagulopathies can be distinguished.

Congenital coagulopathies represent, for example, hemophilia and von Willebrand - Jürgens syndrome dar.

Acquired coagulopathies occur, for example at Verbrauchskoagulopathien, liver disease ( decreased synthesis of clotting factors, such as prothrombin complex deficiency ), vitamin K deficiency (decreased synthesis of vitamin K-dependent coagulation factors ) and haemophilia.