natural anticoagulants

ABSTRACT

The incidence of inherited thrombotic diseases have generally been overlooked, however, data has shown that their incidence is three times more common than the more dramatically presenting inherited bleeding disorders. This article deals specifically with the inbuilt anticoagulant systems within the body; a defect or deficiency in this system would lead to a hypercoagulable state. Catastrophic situations like myocardial infarction in conventional risk free young individuals, strokes, peripheral embolic phenomena and placental infarctions are some of the resultant clinical settings of a hypercoagulable state. In this paper, an attempt has been made to describe the different mechanisms of action, clinical implications and laboratory methodologies available for the diagnosis of these conditions, as well as available therapeutic remedies