Bleeding

essential to minimize the risk of these complications but it also could potentially increase the risk of bleeding events (1, 2). Therefore, maintaining balance between bleeding and thrombosis is the target to prevent cerebrovascular events.…

Introduction Originating from the Greek words ‘haima’, meaning blood, and ‘philia’, meaning friend, hemophilia is a medical condition in which the individual lacks a certain clotting factor which prevents bleeding as a result of injury. In order of rarity from most to least, it features type A, B and C hemophilia and various severity levels. Type A hemophilia consists of 90% of cases, in which the individual lacks clotting factor VIII and 70% of patients have a severe level of hemophilia.…

anesthetic most commonly used . Ligature; tying ends of blood vessels in the body to stop bleeding. Morphine; a very powerful pain killing drug used during the civil war. Scalpel; a small sharp knife used by surgeons to cut through skin. Styptics; drugs that absorb blood and stop bleeding. Sutures; silk thread stitches used to sew up wounds. Tourniquet; a device that wraps around an arm or leg tightened to stop bleeding. Typhoid fever; a deadly disease that is caused…

Xarelto cases have been filed by those individuals who wish to settle themselves or their families financially as a consequence of severe bleeding injuries caused by this drug. Most of the injuries are associated with the thinning of blood in the bodies. These bleeding injuries have even resulted instroke, death, brain Hemorrhages and gastrointestinal bleeding in some cases. Most of the lawyers are confident that the drug manufacturers will pay compensation to the sufferers,though these…

to diagnose his type of hemophilia. However, a deficiency of either one of these factors can lead to problems with blood clotting that can cause severe bruising and bleeding even with minor trauma. It is possible that Justin’s brother that died from the head trauma at the age of one also had hemophilia which caused internal bleeding in his head (the intracranial hemorrhage) when he fell from the crib causing his death. Being that the disease is most common in men, Justin and his brother…

presses on certain areas of the brain (hemorrhage). Lack of oxygen and pressure from hemorrhaging can lead to brain damage. There are two types of hemorrhagic stroke, depending on where bleeding occurs. If bleeding occurs within the brain tissue, the condition is called an intracerebral hemorrhage. If bleeding occurs in the area between the brain and the membrane that covers the brain (subarachnoid space), the condition is called a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Hemorrhagic stroke is a medical…

Women have the chance to face menstrual irregularities and premenstrual syndrome. Some cases of menstrual irregularities are known as Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (AUB). AUB occurs when the uterus has more blood than the regular monthly period. These anayulatory cycles can have many causes. To begin, a common cause is pregnancy. Abnormal bleeding related to pregnancy can exist in ectopic pregnancy, spontaneous abortion, placenta previa, and abruption. Another cause may occur due to complications…

org/user_journals/show/44065/An-Attempt-to-Explain-the-Menstrual-Cycle-in-Plain-Language Your Cycle 101 There are four phases to the female menstrual cycle, and they can vary in their length. When counting your cycle, day 1 is the day bleeding starts. The end of the cycle is the day before the bleeding starts again, repeating day one. An average cycle can range between 21 and 34 days, and yet, still be considered normal. Day 14 is ovulation day, therefore, if you bleed day 1, 13 days later,…

guidelines recommend in patients with CrCl 30-49 mL/min to use the 110 mg BID dose. A subgroup analysis of the RE-LY trial (7) which included patients with CrCl 30-49 mL/min demonstrated a lower risk of stroke/systemic embolism and a similar risk of major bleeding with dabigatran in comparison to warfarin (8). Based on a pharmacokinetic modeling, FDA but not EMA approved a lower dose of dabigatran 75 mg BID in patients with CrCl 15-30 ml/mL (9, 10).…

to cause GI (gastrointestinal) bleeding when mixed with naproxen. This is also a probability if naproxen is mixed with drugs. Naproxen sodium may also increase the toxicity of lithium. This could increase the risk for lithium side effects. When taken with methotrexate naproxen sodium can increase the levels of methotrexate also increasing the risk for methotrexate side effects. Different types of antacids make naproxen less effective and naproxen sodium should be taken carefully with other…