{"id":1053070,"date":"2011-03-13T15:49:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/investigating-easy-bruising-in-a-child\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:47:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:47:54","slug":"investigating-easy-bruising-in-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/investigating-easy-bruising-in-a-child.php","title":{"rendered":"Investigating easy bruising in a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/341\/bmj.c4565.shortDelete\">BMJ<\/a>:<\/p><p>In a child, unusual bruising or bleeding out of proportion to the injury sustained should be investigated.<\/p><p>All children under investigation for easy bruising or a bleeding tendency should have:<\/p><p>- full blood count<br>- blood film (peripheral smear)<br>- coagulation screen including a thrombin time, in addition to a Von Willebrand factor assay and assays of factors VIII and IX<\/p><p>This is to ensure that mild forms of haemophilia are excluded even if the activated partial thromboplastin time is normal<\/p><p>In 30% of cases of haemophilia, there is no family history: it arises secondary to new genetic mutations<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2608\/483\/1600\/Coagulation_cascade1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/fc7fc_Coagulation_cascade.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br>The coagulation cascade. Black arrow - conversion\/activation of factor. Red arrows - action of inhibitors. Blue arrows - reactions catalysed by activated factor. Grey arrow - various functions of thrombin. <span>Image source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coagulation\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/p><p>References:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/341\/bmj.c4565.shortDelete\">Investigating easy bruising in a child<\/a>. Anderson and Thomas 341, BMJ.<\/p><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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