Risk factors for disseminated intravascular coagulation in patients with lung cancer

Disseminated intravascular coagulation in cancer patients.

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a syndrome that may complicate a variety of diseases, including malignant disease. DIC is characterized by widespread, intravascular activation of coagulation (leading to intravascular fibrin deposition) and simultaneous consumption of coagulation factors and platelets (potentially resulting in bleeding). Clinically, DIC in cancer has, in general,...

Effect of Thrombomodulin Alfa on Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in Patients with Lung Cancer

Objective The mortality rate due to disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is higher in patients with lung cancer than in those without. We examined the effect of treatment with thrombomodulin alfa (TM-α) for DIC in lung cancer patients. Methods Subjects were 57 patients with DIC (43 men, 14 women; mean age, 71.7 years), comprising 31 with lung cancer and 26 without. DIC patients with or ...

Disseminated intravascular coagulation= رثختلا لخادرشتنملا ةيعوألا DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION

Overt disseminated intravascular coagulation in obstetric patients.

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence, etiology and outcome of treatment in obstetric patients complicated by overt disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). MATERIAL AND METHOD Medical records of 25 obstetric patients with a diagnosis of DIC in Songklanagarind University Hospital from January 1993 to December 2005 were reviewed RESULTS The incidence of overt DIC was I per 1,355 deliveri...

Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

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