FATAL INTRA-OPERATIVE DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION;

Autor: Bushra Zaidi, Mumtaz Hussain Shah, Jawad Zahir, Samina Sattar, Tabish Hussain, T. Sosorburam, Qudsia Anjum Qureshi
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: The Professional Medical Journal. 20:1053-1057
ISSN: 2071-7733
1024-8919
DOI: 10.29309/tpmj/2013.20.06.1564
Popis: Authors present a case of 26 years old female who was having Esophagectomy done due to esophageal perforationsecondary to severe corrosive intake strictures. Pre-operative course was uneventful, but during 5 hours of extensive surgery, shedeveloped fulminant disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) which was initially managed, but proved to be fatal after 4 hours of ICUstay. Surgeons should be alert that hypercoaguable state can develop in unprepared patients having extensive surgery.
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