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Clotting Pathway
Aka: Clotting Pathway, Clotting Cascade, Coagulation Pathway, Clotting Factor, Coagulation Factor- See Also
- Pathways
- Initiators of the Clotting Cascade
- Intrinsic Clotting Pathway
- Initiated by Negatively charged surface
- Extrinsic Clotting Pathway
- Initiated by disrupted cell membranes
- Intrinsic Clotting Pathway
- Common Clotting Pathway follows above initiators
- Antagonized by Clotting Pathway Inhibition
- Initiators of the Clotting Cascade
- Labs
- Partial Thromboplastin Time (PTT)
- Measures intrinsic pathway
- Prolonged by
- Prothrombin Time (PT)
- Measures extrinsic pathway
- Affecting both ProTime and Partial Thromboplastin Time
- Factor X
- Factor V
- Prothrombin
- Fibrinogen
- Thrombin Time
- Measures only common pathway
- Partial Thromboplastin Time (PTT)
- Causes: Coagulation disorder etiologies