Plasma or serum extrinsic pathway inhibitor (EPI) activity was measured in 24 patients with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and in 23 patients with severe hepatocellular disease. EPI was measured as activity in a test sample that inhibitied factor VIla/tissue factor (TF)catalyzed activation of 3H-factor IX (activation peptide release) in the presence of factor X. Of the 24 patients...

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) frequently occurs in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). With the induction of therapy in APL using all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), DIC can be controlled in most cases as ATRA usually shows immediate improvement of the APL. However, arsenic trioxide (ATO) which has been used for the treatment of relapse in APL patients has shown to take...

Known variously as disseminated intravascular coagulation, defibrination consumption coagulopathy or, more simply, as defibrination, disseminated intravascular coagulation is a serious epiphenomenon that occurs most often as a complicating factor of an underlying disease process. Although frequently triggered by underlying disease such as infection or tumor, if not recognized and treated approp...

We report here a 47-year-old male with the diagnosis of high-grade B-cell lymphoma and hemophagocytosis accompanying disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Lymphoma-associated hemophagocytic syndrome (LAHS) is a life-threatening disorder, and LAHS secondary to B-cell lymphoma is relatively rare compared to that secondary to T- or NK/T-cell lymphoma in Western countries. T- or NK/T-cell L...

We read with interest the recent issue of Critical Care, particularly the article by Gando and colleagues [1] about the validation of the scoring systems for disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Mortality in patients with DIC according to diagnostic criteria of the Japanese Association of Acute Medicine (JAAM; 31.8%) was similar to that in patients with International Society of Thrombo...

We looked into the statistical association of prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) score calculated using the International society for thrombosis and haemostasis (ISTH) scoring system. The PT, APTT, PT + APTT, and PT/APTT ratios were evaluated against the DIC score by linear regression analysis in fifty inpatie...

BACKGROUND Coagulation abnormalities can accompany acute congestive heart failure (CHF). However, disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is rarely documented in such patients. DIC is characterized by generalized excessive activation of coagulation pathways followed by their depletion with secondary activation of anticoagulation and fibrinolysis. Treatment of the cause is an integral part ...

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a well known hemostatic complication of solid tumors. We evaluated the occurrence of DIC in 1117 patients with solid tumors. Of these patients, 76 (6.8%) were diagnosed with DIC. There were a total of 145 bleeding and clotting episodes reported in the 76 patients. Thrombocytopenia, hypofibrinogemia, elevated D-dimer and fibrinogen degradation prod...