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Bleeding Disorders
- Overviews
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Treatment
- Specific Conditions
- Related Issues
- Financial Issues
- Clinical Trials
- Genetics
- Research
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Directories
- Organizations
- Children
- Teenagers
- Women
Overviews
- Overviews
- What Is a Bleeding Disorder? (National Hemophilia Foundation)
- What You Need to Know about Hypercoagulable States (Blood Clotting Disorders) (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- aPTT (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- Coagulation Factors (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- D-dimer (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- Fibrinogen (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- Platelet Count (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- PT and INR (Prothrombin Time, International Normalized Ratio) (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- Understanding Your Complete Blood Count (National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center) - Links to PDF
Also available in: Spanish
Treatment
- Treatment
- Minimally Invasive Procedure Shrinks Blood Clots in the Brain (American Stroke Association)
Specific Conditions
- Specific Conditions
- Bleeding into the Skin (Petechiae) (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Blood Clotting Problems Due to Antibodies (Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome) (UpToDate)
- Factor V Leiden (American Heart Association) - Links to PDF
- Hereditary Bleeding Disorders (National Center for Infectious Diseases)
- Hypercoagulation: Excessive Blood Clotting (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Also available in: Spanish - ITP: Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Also available in: Spanish - Low Platelet Count (Thrombocytopenia) (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- What Is Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura? (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
- What Is von Willebrand Disease? (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- Important Information to Know When You Are Taking: Coumadin and Vitamin K (National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center) - Links to PDF
- Information for Teachers and Childcare Providers (National Hemophilia Foundation)
- Platelets and Cardiovascular Disease (American Heart Association) - Links to PDF
- Tips for Travellers (World Federation of Hemophilia)
Also available in: Spanish
Financial Issues
- Financial Issues
- Bleeding Disorders: Financial and Insurance Issues (National Hemophilia Foundation)
Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Blood Coagulation Disorders (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Thrombocytopenia (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: von Willebrand Disease (National Institutes of Health)
Genetics
- Genetics
- Genetics Home Reference: Factor V Leiden thrombophilia (National Library of Medicine)
- Gene Therapy (National Hemophilia Foundation)
Research
- Research
- Blood Clots in People with Factor V Leiden Mutation (American College of Physicians)
- Treatment of Refractory Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (American College of Physicians)
- Treatment Options for Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura When Splenectomy Is Ineffective (American College of Physicians)
Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Bleeding Disorders: Glossary (National Hemophilia Foundation)
Directories
- Directories
- Blood Bank Locator (American Association of Blood Banks)
- Find a Hematologist (American Society of Hematology)
- Find a Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist (American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology)
- Global Treatment Center Directory (World Federation of Hemophilia)
Organizations
- Organizations
- Hematologic Diseases Branch (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- National Hemophilia Foundation
Women
- Women
- Bleeding and Clotting Disorders in Women (National Center for Infectious Diseases)
- Bleeding Disorders (National Women's Health Information Center)
- Bleeding Disorders in Women: Questions and Answers for Newly Diagnosed Women (National Center for Infectious Diseases)