Enfermedades congénitas de la coagulación y manejo en Odontopediatría

Reviewing a patient in Odontopediatria with hematomas and bleeding is common. Diagnosis and treatment depend on knowledge of normal mechanisms of hemostasis and laboratories that analyze. Manipulations in the oral cavity, especially those with extravasation of blood, are a risk for patients with bleeding disorders, prevention is the avoidance of complications, for this reason it must have: a medical history with emphasis on background and family of bleeding problems and knowledge of the most common diseases that originate and handling2. Minor hemorrhages, occur due to local factors, the severe systemic disorders of hemostasis, such as congenital coagulopathy, heterogeneous group of diseases secondary to alterations of plasma proteins of primary hemostasis (eg von Willebrand factor) of coagulation or fibrinolysis, are caused by the absence of a factor or combination of 2 or more. This review aims to answer these questions.