Important lab tests for vascular system disorders: Platelet count Normal PT Normal APTT Normal Template BT Normal or abnormal INHERITED VASCULAR DISORDERS Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) Ehlers-Danlos syndromes PLATELET DISORDERS QUANTITATIVE PLATELET DISORDERS Thrombocytopenia Important lab tests for thrombocytopenia: Platelet count Decreased PT Normal APTT Normal Template BT Abnormal Due to increased destruction By the immune system Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) By consumption Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) Due to decreased production By megakaryocyte hypoplasia syndromes Decreased megakaryocyte proliferation A type of aplastic anemia Fanconi anemia Thrombocytopenia with absent radii (TAR) syndrome By hereditary thrombocytopenia Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Bernard-Soulier (giant platelet) syndrome May-Hegglin anomaly
Due to increased splenic sequestration "Big spleen" syndrome: hypersplenism Due to dilution of blood Multiple transfusions
Due to multiple reasons Open-heart surgery Thrombocytosis Reactive (transient) thrombocytosis Myeloproliferative disorders QUALITATIVE PLATELET DISORDERS Important lab tests for qualitative platelet disorders: Platelet count Normal PT Normal APTT Normal Template BT Normal or abnormal Hereditary qualitative platelet disorders Due to disordered platelet adhesion Bernard-Soulier (giant platelet) Syndrome von Willebrand Disease (vWD) Hypergammaglobulinemia DISORDERS OF SECONDARY HEMOSTASIS HEREDITARY DISORDERS OF SECONDARY HEMOSTASIS AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT von Willebrand disease (vWD) X-LINKED RECESSIVE Factor VIII deficiency (hemophilia A) Factor IX deficiency (hemophilia B) AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE Factor deficiencies Factor II (prothrombin) deficiency Factor V deficiency Factor VII deficiency Factor X deficiency Factor XI deficiency Factor XIII deficiency Factor XII deficiency PK deficiency HK deficiency Of factor I (fibrinogen) Afibrinogenemia Hypofibrinogenemia Dysfibrinogenemia ACQUIRED DISORDERS OF SECONDARY HEMOSTASIS Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) Liver disease (LD) Hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN) Acquired inhibitors (circulating anticoagulants) Thrombotic Disorders