Hepatic hemangioma patients with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome have reportedly been cured by liver transplantation. However, liver transplantation as a potential cure for a stable patient without Kasabach-Merritt syndrome remains debatable. We report the case of a 27-year-old female patient with a giant hepatic hemangioma. The hemangioma measured 50×40×25 cm in size and weighed 15 kg, which is the ...

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...

The term “eponym” originates from the Greek word “eponymous”, which means “named after”. Dermatology literature is rich in eponyms [1]. In this communication, we aimed to highlight on selected eponyms in dermatology literature linked to the vascular tumors, which we listed it in in Table I [1-7]. However, we want to stress that this table is by no mean conclusive as some eponyms linked to vascu...

We present a case of giant cavernous hemangioma of the liver with disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (Kasabach-Merritt syndrome) which was cured by enucleation. The 51 year old woman presented with increased abdominal girth and easy bruisability. Workup elsewhere revealed a massive hepatic hemangioma and she was started on radiation therapy to the lesion and offered an orthotopic liver tra...

We report a case of Kasabach-Merritt syndrome arising from a tufted angioma successfully treated with systemic corticosteroid. A 2-month-old male infant presented with a palm-sized, erythematous induration on his left pubis. The lesion was diagnosed as tufted angioma histopathologically. After 1 month, the lesion suddenly expanded to the abdomen and scrotum. Initial laboratory tests were consis...

by Robert B. Avery Robert B. Avery is a professor in the Department of Consumer Economics and Housing at Cornell University and a research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The author gratefully acknowledges useful comments and suggestions from Rosemary Avery, Glenn Canner, Randall Eberts, George Galster, Mark Sniderman, and James Thomson. Fungya Huang provided helpful researc...