Disseminated intravascular clotting in kwashiorkor.

Hemodialysis without Anticoagulation for a Patient with Chronic Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

We report a 68-year-old Japanese man with end-stage renal failure requiring hemodialysis and chronic disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) related to thrombosis in an aortic aneurysm. He had undergone graft replacement for the dissection of the ascending and descending thoracic aorta in 1990 and 2002, respectively. Computed tomography disclosed an aneurysm with thrombosis in the residual...

Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in a Case of Brucellosis Misdiagnosed as Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Purpura

Oedema in kwashiorkor is caused by hypoalbuminaemia

It has been argued that the oedema of kwashiorkor is not caused by hypoalbuminaemia because the oedema disappears with dietary treatment before the plasma albumin concentration rises. Reanalysis of this evidence and a review of the literature demonstrates that this was a mistaken conclusion and that the oedema is linked to hypoalbuminaemia. This misconception has influenced the recommendations ...

Lack of correlation between delayed traumatic intracerebral haematoma and disseminated intravascular coagulation.

The relationship between delayed traumatic intracerebral haematoma and disseminated intravascular coagulation was investigated. Eighteen patients with delayed traumatic intracerebral haematoma were selected as the study subjects from 268 consecutive patients with head trauma and compared with another two groups of patients with closed head injury (20 cases) and with multiple injuries (24 cases)...

Disseminated intravascular coagulation and the neuroradiologist.

The preceding article by Boyko et al. [1] is a timely reminder of the frequency with which clinicians see disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in association with head trauma. DIC itself is a hematologic abnormality that results from a pathologic activation of the blood-clotting enzymes. The process may be initiated by a variety of causes, including trauma, infection, obstetric accident...