A patient on Aspirin will have an increase in which of the following parameters?

 Today's Question

A patient on Aspirin will have an increase in which of the following parameters?

a)Bleeding Time 

b)aPTT

C)PT

D)Clotting Time

Answer :

 Bleeding Time

• Bleeding time evaluation is used to measure the primary phase of hemostasis, which involves platelet adherence to injured capillaries and then platelet activation and aggregation.
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• The bleeding time can be abnormal when the platelet count is low or the platelets are dysfunctional.
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• Where as Clotting Time depending on the factors  on coagulation cascade with the clotting factors. 
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• Clotting Time Does not depend on platelet Count alone
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• Clotting Time increases in defiency of clotting factors
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• Partial thromboplastin time (PTT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) are used to test for the same functions 
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• Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time) is a medical test of blood coagulation used to investigate the clotting factors of the intrinsic pathway
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• The aPTT is considered a more sensitive version of the PTT and is used to monitor the patient’s response to heparin therapy.where as Warfarin use PTT
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• Both of them can be further explained as measure of extrensic and intrensic pathway.

So by action on Platelets of Aspirin Bleeding Time is the answer.

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