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Blood

Normally, if you get hurt, your body forms a blood clot to stop the bleeding. For blood to clot, your body needs cells called platelets and proteins known as clotting factors. If you have a bleeding disorder, you either do not have enough platelets or clotting factors or they don't work the way they should.

Bleeding disorders can be the result of other diseases, such as severe liver disease or a lack of vitamin K. They can also be inherited. Hemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder. Bleeding disorders can also be a side effect of medicines such as blood thinners.

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  1. Bleeding Disorders (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... needs cells called platelets and proteins known as clotting factors. If you have a bleeding disorder, you either do not have enough platelets or clotting factors or they don't work the way ...
  2. Blood Clotting and Pregnancy Video (American Society of Hematology)  
    ... Treatment Research Support and Funding Meetings Careers Blood Clotting & Pregnancy If you are pregnant, or you have ... anticoagulant, a medicine that prevents the blood from clotting. Certain anticoagulants are safe to use during pregnancy. ...
  3. Hemophilia (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... and organs. Your blood contains many proteins called clotting factors that can help form clots to stop ... is caused by a lack or decrease of clotting factor VIII (8) Hemophilia B (Christmas disease), which ...
  4. ... measures the function of a part of the clotting system. A related blood test is partial thromboplastin ... the function of a different part of the clotting system.
  5. What Are Blood Clotting Disorders? From the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)  
    Bleeding Disorders/Start Here ... Bleeding Disorders ... National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ... From the National Institutes of Health ... Clotting disorders,blood ...
  6. Rare Clotting Factor Deficiencies (World Federation of Hemophilia)  
    Bleeding Disorders/Specifics ... Bleeding Disorders ... Vitamin K/Learn More ... Vitamin K ... World Federation of Hemophilia
  7. ... III) is a protein that helps control blood clotting. A blood test can determine the amount of ... mean you have an increased risk for blood clotting. This can occur when there is not enough ...
  8. Vitamin K (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... and tissues. It also makes proteins for blood clotting. If you don't have enough vitamin K, ...
  9. ... that come from white blood cell fragments, and clotting factors that help blood clot. When a blood ... and the outside bleeding stops. On the inside, clotting factors cause a cascade of activity that includes ...
  10. ... is a bleeding disorder that slows the blood clotting process. People with this condition experience prolonged bleeding ... are proteins that work together in the blood clotting process. After an injury, blood clots protect the ...
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