Kasabach merritt syndrome: Management with interferon

Kasabach-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...

Kasabach-Merritt syndrome and interferon alpha: still a controversial issue.

LETTERS Category D: unknown whether ill treatment is cause I would like to congratulate Southall and colleagues for their very important paper, which represents extremely well the clinical and practical reality of the spectrum of child abuse. 1 However, I have one fundamental concern relating to unexplained subdural haemato-mas. The authors state that " sometimes the parent is ignorant about th...

Haemangioma with thrombocytopenia (Kasabach-Merritt syndrome).

We describe two patients with haemangioma with thrombocytopenia (Kasabach-Merritt syndrome). Both were treated with corticosteroids without notable improvement. The first patient responded satisfactorily to radiotherapy, whereas the second showed a slow spontaneous resolution.

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...

Kaposiform Hemangioendothelioma in a Newborn with Kasabach-Merritt Syndrome