[HTML][HTML] Guidance for diagnosis and treatment of disseminated intravascular coagulation from harmonization of the recommendations from three guidelines

H Wada, J Thachil, M Di Nisio, P Mathew… - Journal of thrombosis …, 2013 - Elsevier
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a syndrome characterized by the systemic
activation of blood coagulation, which generates intravascular fibrin, leading to thrombosis
of small and medium-sized vessels, and eventually organ dysfunction 1. DIC may occur as a
complication of infections, solid cancers, hematologic malignancies, obstetric diseases,
trauma, aneurysm, and liver diseases, among others, and each type of DIC presents
characteristic features related to the underlying disorder. The diagnosis and treatment of DIC …