Recent findings have forced us to reevaluate the long-held view that the coagulation cascade operates as an amplifying system. We now recognize that the powerful forces that drive the hemostatic mechanism are offset by equally powerful forces that turn it off. Several hypercoagulable states are associated with specific defects in natural anticoagulant mechanisms.
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