Table of Contents:
  • Bleeding disorders: diagnosis and treatment / W. Jean Dodds
  • Diagnosis
  • General principles
  • Medical history
  • Physical examination
  • Inherited diseases
  • Clotting factor deficiencies
  • Factor VII deficiency
  • Hemophilia A (factor VIII deficiency; classic hemophilia)
  • Hemophilia B (factor IX; Christmas disease)
  • von Willebrand's disease (VWD)
  • Factor X deficiency
  • Factor XI (PTA) deficiency
  • Factor XII deficiency (Hageman trait)
  • Dysfibrinogenemia
  • Other defects
  • Platelet function defects
  • Thrombasthenia (Glanzmann's disease)
  • Thrombopathia (Storage Pool Disease)
  • Acquired diseases
  • Platelet function defects
  • Vitamin K deficiency.
  • Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) with fibrinolysis
  • Liver disease
  • Other diseases
  • Management and treatment
  • Specific therapy
  • Blood and blood component replacement
  • Thrombocytopenia
  • Vitamin K deficiency
  • Disseminated intravascular coagulation
  • Precautions for collection and handling of blood samples
  • Summary of practical screening tests for diagnosis of bleeding disease
  • Canine blood groups
  • Transfusion therapy of bleeding disorders
  • Immune-mediated blood diseases
  • Hereditary and congenital diseases in dogs.