About the Treatment of Kasabach-Merritt Syndrome
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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 stated by the authors. Although post-transfusion laboratory findings were not reported and consumption coagulopathy did not seem to be aggravated in the authors’ patient, I would like to draw attention to the complication of substrate supplementation in consumption coagulopathy cases without the taking of necessary precautions.
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