What is acute thrombophilia?
• Thrombophilia (throm-BO-feel-ee-a) is a condition where your blood forms clots too easily. Forming a blood clot is called “coagulation.” This happens when there is increased activity of the coagulation system in your body. The coagulation system controls how blood clots form in the body. When there is increased activity of this system, there is increased formation of blood clots. Normally, clots form only as a response to an injury in the wall of a blood vessel. The clot acts as a plug to prevent too much bleeding from the site of injury. When the injury has healed, the clot breaks down. • In acute thrombophilia, clots can form without being triggered by an injury to the blood vessel. Clots can form in veins (blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart). Less commonly, the clots may form in an artery (blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart). These clots can prevent normal blood flow to vital organs and other parts of the body. The word acute is used to describe problems
