Concomitant Pituitary Apoplexy and Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy Complicated With Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

Ulcerative colitis complicated by disseminated intravascular coagulation.

We report a case of chronic ulcerative colitis complicated by clinical evidence of disseminated intravascular coagulation and pathological evidence of intestinal ischaemia secondary to venular and capillary fibrin thrombi. This may well represent an example of univisceral Shwartzman reaction occurring in a sensitized target organ.

Thyroid Storm Complicated by Bicytopenia and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

PATIENT Male, 23. FINAL DIAGNOSIS Thyroid storm. SYMPTOMS Delirium • diarrhea • fever • hypertension • hyperventilation • tachycardia • weight loss. MEDICATION -. CLINICAL PROCEDURE -. SPECIALTY Endocrinology and Metabolic. OBJECTIVE Unusual clinical course. BACKGROUND The clinical presentation of thyroid storm includes fever, tachycardia, hypertension, and neurological abnormalit...

Disseminated intravascular coagulation= رثختلا لخادرشتنملا ةيعوألا DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION

Acute Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in Neuroendocrine Carcinoma

Malignancy is a common cause of disseminated intravascular coagulation and usually presents as a chronic disorder in solid organ tumours. We present a rare case of recurrent acute disseminated intravascular coagulation in neuroendocrine carcinoma after manipulation, firstly, by core biopsy and, later, by cytotoxic therapy causing a release of procoagulants and cytokines from lysed tumour cells....

Disseminated intravascular coagulation associated with hepatitis in late pregnancy.

A patient with viral hepatitis in the third trimester of pregnancy is described. She developed acute hepatic failure in the postpartum period which was associated with evidence of intravascular coagulation. Following therapy with heparin and fresh-frozen plasma, the patient made a dramatic recovery. Hepatitis developed during the puerperium may predispose to pathological intravascular coagulati...