Vincristine: A new treatment option for Kasabach-Merritt Syndrome
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
About the Treatment of Kasabach-Merritt Syndrome
94 To the Editor, Dr. Emre and colleagues briefly reported on a 24-year-old female with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome in the most recent issue of this journal [1]. Three units of fresh frozen plasma were administrated within 3 days to the patient for the correction of severe hypofibrinogenemia despite a very high D-dimer level (5000 ng/mL), both of which reflected consumption coagulopathy, as state...
متن کاملKasabach-Merritt syndrome.
Hemangiomas of infancy are usually congenital lesions. Occasionally they are associated with microangiopatbic bemolytic anaemia, thrombocytopenia, and a consumptive coagulopathy. This is most often associated with cavernous hemangiomas. Thrombocytopenia associated with giant cavernous hemangiomas was first noted by Kasabach and Merritt in 1940. As the primary mechanism of platelet destruction i...
متن کاملA new successful combination therapy with atenolol and prednisolone for Kasabach-Merritt syndrome
Kasabach-merritt syndrome is a rare life-threatening syndrome associated with vascular tumors such as tufted angioma and kaposiform hemangioendothelioma. For this syndrome, there exist a few treatment modalities with variable results. For many years, corticosteroids have been employed in the first-line therapy. Nowadays, on the other hand, β blockers such as propranolol have been used owing to ...
متن کامل[A case report of Kasabach-Merritt syndrome].
Kasabach Merritt syndrome (KMS) is an uncommon complication of large haemangioma in which there is thrombocytopenia and coagulopathy. We report a case of a new born male baby presented with a large haemangioma on the right upper extremity and his initial laboratory tests were consistent with consumptive coagulopathy. He was diagnosed as a case of KMS and treated with oral prednisolone. 1. Assoc...
متن کاملKasabach-Merritt syndrome: a case report.
Kasabach-Meritt syndrome is a combination of thromobocytopenia, hemolytic anemia, and acute or chronic consumptive coagulopathy in association with rapidly enlarging hemangioma. A male infant of 5 days was admitted in paediatric ward with this syndrome. The baby had ecchymotic patches over face and extremities and bleeding through umbilical stump. The child expired due to severe thrombocytopeni...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Internet Journal of Medical Update - EJOURNAL
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1694-0423
DOI: 10.4314/ijmu.v6i2.68195