Women's Issues in Thrombosis and Hemostasis
Contributors: Benjamin Brenner (Editor); Victor J. Marder (Editor); Jacqueline Conard (Editor)
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: June 13, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781841840031
Subjects: Haematology; Medical; Diseases; Gynecology; Medical Hematology; Medical / Nursing; Hemostasis; Hematology; Cardiology; Gynecology & Obstetrics; Medical / Gynecology & Obstetrics; Blood coagulation disorders; Women; Blood coagulation disorders in; Blood coagulation disorders in pregnancy
First sentence: Humans have evolved an intricate hemostatic system that is designed to maintain blood in a fluid state under physiologic conditions but is primed to react to vascular injury in an explosive manner in order to stem blood loss by sealing the defect in the vessel wall.