Active clinical trials for "Hemostatic Disorders"

Study of blood loss in preeclamptic patients using mathematical formulae

Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is one of the leading causes of maternal deaths. Its prognosis is directly influenced by the early diagnosis and treatment of the associated coagulopathy. In this context, fibrinogen concentration is the best predictor of a severe PPH. The medical interest of thromboelastography/elastometry to early detect and guide the rapid correction of coagulopathy in PPH is regularly discussed. The principal aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of a new hemostasis point of care device (thromboelastography - TEG ®6S) for the diagnosis of coagulopathy during PPH. A secondary aim will be to determine the normal values of TEG6S at the end of a normal pregnancy.

Coagulopathy after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Clot formation and clot stability are important factors in coagulation and hemostasis. As such platelet dysfunction and impaired thrombin generation play a central role in bleeding after cardiac surgery. The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between point-of-care determined platelet function and thrombin generation and postoperative bleeding in infants and young children undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass adjusting for clinically important confounding factors.

Patients with severe subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) may present platelet and coagulation dysfunctions immediately after the stroke on admission at the hospital, and persisting up to 3-4 weeks after the onset. This study aimed to investigate the platelet function as assessed by impedance agregometry (ROTEM Platelet) and platelet adhesion (PFA), and the coagulation profile as assessed by ROTEM, over three evolutive times.

The study will follow COVID-19 patients who required intensive care after 3-6 months and one year after discharge from the ICU with functional level as well as organ function to assess recovery after COVID-19. Blood and urine will be collected for biobanking.

Bleeding control often poses a great challenge for clinicians due to trauma-induced blood clotting disorder (TIC), a condition that is present in one-third of bleeding trauma patients. As platelets are considered as central mediators in TIC, the understanding of mitochondria-mediated processes in thrombocytes may disclose new therapeutic targets in the management of severely injured patients. The investigators hypothesize that mitochondrial dysfunction occurs in the platelets of trauma patients with TIC. The investigators intend to quantitatively characterize the derangements of mitochondrial functions in TIC; and assess the relation between mitochondrial respiration and clinical markers of platelet function

Retrospective data collection. The aim of this study is to compare general anesthesia and nerve block anesthesia with respect to the postoperative complications in patients undergoing diabetic leg amputation and having bleeding tendency.

Therapy of patients with severe hemophilia (including hemophilia with inhibitors) and other severe bleeding disorders could be monitored and guided based upon special clotting assays , eg thrombin generation and thromboelastography. In this study blood sampled from patients with bleeding disorders will be evaluated applying ex- vivo spiking assays with various coagulation concentrates to potentially address the feasibility of replacement /bypass agents/ combined therapy for future bleeding episodes. Patients that will be further treated by any regimen potentially suggested (as standard care- not within trial) will be thereafter followed , including repeated lab studies to assess the impact of therapy upon hemostasis.

Over the past few decades, a good number of studies with regard to coagulopathy and increased bleeding tendency which is defined as macro- or microscopic hemorrhage, declination of hemoglobin level, thrombocytopenia, and hypoprothrombinemia potentially caused by the use of antibiotics through a variety of suggested mechanisms, including myelosuppression, immune-mediated destruction of thrombocytes and coagulation factors, and suppression of vitamin K epoxide reductase or vitamin K-dependent γ-glutamate carboxylase which may lead to inhibition of biosynthesis of coagulation factor II, VII, IX, and X, have been reported or published. Nevertheless, many of them are case-series studies or case reports with low level of evidence, and there have been no large-scale retrospective cohort studies regarding antibiotic-associated coagulopathy being published. Moreover, in addition to exposure to antibiotics, there are several risk factors, including severity of illness, hepatic or renal function, nutrition status, comorbidities such as cancer and hematologic disease, surgery or other invasive procedure, concomitant use of anticoagulants, NSAIDs, and salicylates, and age, which may exert influence on the function of the coagulation system as well. Therefore, the study aims to clarify the association between the use of antibiotics and the increase of bleeding tendency or the development of bleeding event and to identify possible risk factors of the increase of bleeding tendency or the development of bleeding event in patients receiving antibiotic treatment through the application of nested case-control design and the usage of both the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) and medical records in National Taiwan University Hospital during the time period from January, 1995 to December, 2013.

Menorrhagia is the term used to define excessive menstrual blood losses, as often based on a subjective judgment of women. Many arbitrary values, expressed in milliliters of blood, have been proposed to define this symptom: 60 on each cycle has also been confirmed in our preliminary study on 87 healthy women. The quantitative determination of menstrual blood losses is nevertheless rarely performed, only in research settings. Although menorrhagia is a quite frequent symptom in healthy women apparently haemostatically competent in the fertile age (20-30%), its incidence becomes very high in women affected by congenital coagulation factors deficiency and (50-62.9%) inherited platelet defects, e.g. Glanzmann's Thromboasthenia (GT); also in von Willebrand Disease the bleeding symptom "menorrhagia" has an high prevalence (60-75%)(8); for GT an incidence of 90% has been reported. This explains the need for a study focused on the evaluation of menorrhagia in CBDs, addressed to answer to the following, still unsolved questions: Definition of the entity of menstrual blood losses in women affected by CBDs Elaboration of specific treatment schedules for each type of CBD Impact of different specific treatment schedules on kinetic and entity of menstrual losses (how does treatment modify losses?).