Chapter 17: Blood

A blood clot consists of a platelet plug enmeshed in network of insoluble fibrin. Platelet aggregation and fibrin formation both require the proteolytic enzyme thrombin. Clotting also requires: calcium ions and about a dozen other clotting factors. ... Antiplatelet agents have not altered natural course of disease. ................
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