Disseminated intravascular coagulation

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) : Definition
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) : Overview, Causes, & Risk Factors
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Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DlC) is a severe blood dotting abnormality that affects multiple organ systems and occurs in patients with a serious preexisting medical or surgical problem.

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
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Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Lesions typical of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) are large ecchymotic lesions.

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) involves abnormal, excessive generation of thrombin and fibrin in the circulating blood. During the process, increased platelet aggregation and coagulation factor consumption occur.

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a serious disorder in which the proteins that control blood clotting become abnormally active.
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Acute Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
People who have acute DIC may have severe bleeding that requires emergency treatment in a hospital. Treatments may include blood transfusions, medicines, and oxygen therapy.

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Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a serious condition that affects the blood clotting mechanisms of the body. The proteins involved in blood clotting are activated in an abnormal and uncontrollable fashion by various diseases.

Disseminated intravascular coagulation disorder (DIC)
Unlike hemophilia, DIC, also known as consumption coagulopathy or defibrination syndrome, is neither hereditary nor common.

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Disseminated intravascular coagulation, hemolysis, leukocyto-lastic vasculitis, leukopenia, lymphadenopathy.
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DIC: Disseminated intravascular coagulation. A process in which microscopic clotting occurs throughout the body, leaving no clotting factors available when needed. It can cause excessive bleeding and may be treated with a heparin infusion.

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" DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation): a condition in which the blood will not clot correctly, often leading to life-threatening bleeding. Can occur in some cases of placental abruption.

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Barbui T, Falanga A: Disseminated intravascular coagulation in acute leukemia. Semin Thromb Hemost 27 (6): 593-604, 2001.
de Thé H, Chomienne C, Lanotte M, et al.

are blood loss (placenta previa, abruptio placenta,fetomaternal transfusion, twin-to-twin transfusion, birth trauma,GI bleeding, repeated phlebotomy) and hemolysis (ABO incompatibility,Rh incompatibility, disseminated intravascular coagulation, ...

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Preeclamptic patients with the HELLP syndrome show liver failure and Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).
Placental abruption where the patient can bleed to death if not managed appropriately.

Excessive fibrinogen use (as in disseminated intravascular coagulation) Fibrinolysis ... Lack of fibrinogen production (acquired or from birth) ...
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Complications for the woman include potentially serious blood loss, widespread clotting inside the blood vessels ( disseminated intravascular coagulation ), kidney failure , and bleeding into the walls of the uterus.

(3) The septicaemic plague: there is an acute fulminant infection with shock and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Death results in 2-5 days if left untreated; and; ...

Septicemia can rapidly lead to septic shock and death, being associated with organisms such as meningococci that can lead to shock, adrenal collapse and disseminated intravascular coagulation.
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Alternatively, the platelets may be used up if the blood clotting process is inappropriately 'switched on'. This condition is known as disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).
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Leukemia : complications include bleeding into a critical body part, such as a major organ; serious infections; and DIC. (See DIC, i.e., disseminated intravascular coagulation).

The fibrinsplit products test is one of several tests done to evaluate a person with blood clotting problems (coagulation), particularly disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).

adjunctive diagnostic tool in conditions such as malignant neoplasia, infectious disease, immune-mediated hemolytic anemia, immune-mediated thrombocytopenia, hyperadrenocorticism, pulmonary thromboembolism, and disseminated intravascular coagulation ...

in the marrow (for example, in leukemia, aplastic anemia, and toxicity with certain drugs) or from increased destruction outside the marrow caused by an underlying disorder (such as cirrhosis of the liver, disseminated intravascular coagulation, ...

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Recombinant activated factor VII in children with acute bleeding resulting from liver failure and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis 2000; 11 Suppl 1:S101.
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