Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy

Jaundice and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy in pregnancy.

Jaundice in pregnancy can be caused by viral hepatitis, intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, choledocholithiases, HELLP syndrome (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and a low platelet count), severe preeclampsia, and acute fatty liver of pregnancy. I Acute fatty liver of pregnancy occurs in approximately 1 in 13,000 pregnancies. More than 90% of patients with acute fatty liver of pregnancy ha...

Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy following Induced Second Trimester Curettage Abortion

Background. This is a case of 18-year-old adolescent girl admitted with profuse vaginal bleeding following induced second trimester curettage abortion at 13 weeks of gestation. Case. Her transvaginal sonogram detected retained products of conceptus, and her blood reports revealed a full blown picture of DIC. Dilatation and evacuation was done after initial resuscitation with packed RBCs and pla...

Advanced Congestive Heart Failure Associated With Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy

Background. Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) is a complication of an underlying disease and not a primary illness. It is most commonly associated with sepsis, trauma, obstetrical complications, and malignancies. There are very few cases in the literature illustrating the association between DIC and congestive heart failure. Findings. In this report, we present a case of severe cong...

Diagnosing disseminated intravascular coagulopathy in acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) (see Figure 1) is a complex, life-threatening condition that causes a hypercoagulative state, resulting in inappropriate activation of the coagulation cascade (see Figure 2). Activation of the coagulation cascade is triggered by the release of tissue factor (TF), a transmembrane glycoprotein (McCance & Huether, 2006). On release of TF, the coagulati...

Disseminated intravascular coagulation= رثختلا لخادرشتنملا ةيعوألا DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION