Coagulopathy is a disorder that interrupts or disrupts the formation of blood clots. This can cause impacted patients to lose a lot of blood even after small injuries.
Coagulopathy is used as an umbrella term for a range of conditions that lead to an impaired blood-clotting. This condition can cause spontaneous haemorrhages, e.g. into the skin or the joints, or increased loss of blood even in the event of minor injuries.
There are coagulopathies that are primarily caused by a loss of function or a lack of clotting factors, and coagulopathies caused by antibodies against clotting factors, triggered by an excessive usage of clotting factors (disseminated intravascular coagulation) or that lead to bleedings caused by excessive activity of clotting factors’ antagonists. Haemophilia A or B and the Willebrand disease belong to the group of congenital diseases that cause loss of function of single clotting factors. Some conditions require medication that leads to a lack of functioning clotting factors, such as Marcumar or Aspirin; it is then called acquired coagulopathy. Antibodies against clotting factors can occur spontaneously, but more often they appear in combination with other systemic diseases, e.g. systemic lupus erythematosus. Surgeries, for example of the lung, uterus or prostrate or genetic effects (lack of alpha-2-antiplasmin) can cause a stronger activity of clotting factors’ antagonists.
Treatment of coagulopathy strongly depends on the underlying disease. They may include the following; however, those treatments can’t be applied in all cases: providing clotting factors, substantial haemostasis and diligent sutures after injuries, medication, change of dosage of e.g. Marcumar or Aspirin, transfusion of blood platelets. Absence of measures that carry a high risk of bleeding, such as intramuscular injections. In any case, coagulopathy should be treated by a specialist.
Several years of work in academia, medical practice and finally commercialization make it possible to provide an end-to-end process to help users to “find the appropriate medical help based on their present symptoms”. Below you will find a short explanation, showing you which part of the platform will help you best in finding the appropriate medical support.
Proceed as follows to enter your current symptoms.
Click on the appropriate body part on the picture. Select one/multiple symptoms corresponding to your complaint.
You can also add symptoms by typing your medical complaint in the search box and selecting the best matching suggestion.
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Once you have selected all applicable symptoms, click the “analyze disease pattern”-button.
Accordingly, you will get a list of possible diseases and matching doctor categories who can further help you.
You can inform yourself about the possible diseases by reading the related information. But you can also return to the previous step and add more symptoms or delete already added ones to further narrow down your disease pattern.
Click on the desired doctor category to find a doctor who can help you.
If you are logged in with your profile, you will be displayed the appropriate doctors in your area. Otherwise you can enter an address in the “address” field and you will be displayed a doctor’s list around that specified address.
You will receive further information about the displayed doctors when you press on “details”.
Online bookable doctors in your area will be indicated with the notation “Book appointment” or “Book externally”, additionally they will be displayed on top of the list for your convenience.
Click on “Book appointment” to start the online appointment booking process with the desired doctor.
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