Maintaining appropriate surgical hemostasis is an important component of sound surgical technique and reduces postoperative morbidity and mortality. Intraoperative hemostasis can be achieved by using multiple techniques and hemostatic agents. Factors that must be considered when deciding on an appropriate hemostatic agent include tissue type, characterization of hemorrhage, vessel diameter, and...

Hemoptysis is symptomatic of potentially serious and life-threatening chest disease and requires urgent evaluation and treatment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the hemostatic efficacy of endobronchial application of Ankaferd Blood Stopper(®) (ABS) solution in patients with hemoptysis. This retrospective study included 20 patients with hemoptysis in whom endobronchial ABS was applied in ...

As dermatological procedures continue to become increasingly complex, improved methods and tools to achieve appropriate hemostasis become necessary. The methods for achieving adequate hemostasis are variable and depend greatly on the type of procedure performed and the unique characteristics of the individual patient. In Part 1 of this review, we discuss the preoperative, intraoperative, and po...

Anticoagulant drugs are involved in the prevention and management of cardiac valve disease, cardiac arrhythmia, prosthetic heart valve, pulmonary embolus, and cerebrovascular accident.[1] Patients who receive oral anticoagulant therapy (OAT), dental extractions is a common procedure. In the past, it was controversial that dental extractions in patients under anticoagulant therapy pose the probl...

BACKGROUND Injury to the spleen is a recognized complication during percutaneous renal access due to the close anatomical relationship of the spleen and the left kidney. However, transsplenic renal access is a rare complication of percutaneous nephrolithotomy and can also result in considerable morbidity, often requiring emergent splenectomy. METHODS We present our experience with splenic inj...

Ankaferd blood stopper (ABS) is a hemostatic agent that induces clot formation by a special protein network which mainly causes powerful erythrocyte aggregation. The use of topical ABS as a hemostatic agent has been approved in Turkey for the management of dermal, external post-surgical and post-dental surgery bleeding. ABS has been successfully used in Dieulafoy lesion and bleeding from gastro...

Pregnancy is a physiological hypercoagulable state, preparing the mother for the hemostatic challenge of delivery. However, this is associated with an increased risk of venous thrombosis and placenta-mediated complications, which present major challenges for mother and fetus. Although these conditions are heterogeneous in their pathophysiology, hereditary and acquired thrombophilia has been ass...

BACKGROUND Myelofibrosis and acquired hemophilia A is a rare association. To the best of our knowledge only one case of myelofibrosis and acquired hemophilia A has been previously described. CASE PRESENTATION A 66-year-old Caucasian man diagnosed with myelofibrosis evolving in acute myeloid leukemia was referred to us for postoperative bleeding. Hemostatic studies showed prolonged activated p...

OBJECTIVE Hemostasis and inflammation have been implicated in dementia. This study investigates the role of specific hemostatic and inflammatory pathways with incident vascular and nonvascular dementia. METHODS AND RESULTS This was a prospective study of a population sample of men aged 65 to 84 years, with baseline assessment of hemostatic and inflammatory factors and cognition measured 17 ye...

Infusion solutions are able to change the hemostatic system. Thromboelastography (TEG) is an integral technique to evaluate the hemostatic system. TEG was used to evaluate the effect of three infusion solutions (6% hydroxyexyethyl starch (HES) 200/0.5 - Hemohes; HES 130/0.4 - Voluven; modified gelatin solution - Gelofusin) on the hemostatic system in 36 bone marrow donors (healthy individuals)....