Sources – Anil Ghoms textbook of oral medicine
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Author: Charu Lata
Anticoagulants
Sources : Sembulingam (Textbook of physiology)
Clotting mechanism – Enzyme cascade theory
Clotting – It is defined as the process in which blood looses it’s fluidity and becomes a jelly like substance few minutes after it is shed out.
Sequence of clotting mechanism – Enzyme cascade theory:
Cascade is a process that occurs through a series of steps , each step initiating the next until the final step is reached.
Stages of blood clotting :
- Formation of prothrombin activator
- Conversion of prothrombin into thrombin
- Conversion of fibrinogen into fibrin
Sources – Sembulingam (Textbook of physiology)
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Clotting factors
Clotting – It is defined as the process in which blood looses it’s fluidity and becomes a jelly like mass few minutes after it is shed out.
Source – Slideshare.com
Chronic lymphoid leukemia
Sources – Anil Ghoms textbook of oral medicine , osmosis.org
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Chronic myeloid leukemia
Sources – Anil Ghoms textbook of oral medicine , osmosis.org , Slideshare.com
Image source – Google images
Acute leukemia
Sources – Anil Ghoms textbook of oral medicine , osmosis.org
Image source – Google images
FAB classification of Leukemia
Infectious mononucleosis
Sources – Shafer’s textbook of oral pathology , Armando Faigal
Image source – Google images , Armando Faigal
Chédiak – Higashi Syndrome
Sources – Shafer’s textbook of oral pathology.
Image sources – Google images
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