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Common
Causes of Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
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- Obstetric
complications, including abruptio placentae, septic abortion,
intrauterine fetal death
- Infections:
viral, bacterial, rickettsial, fungal, and protozoal
- Malignancy,
including acute leukemias, but also solid-organ malignancies
- Intravascular
hemolysis, including transfusion reaction, drug induced hemolysis,
and Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
- Vascular
malformation and aneurysms
- Massive tissue
injury (includes trauma)
- Hypoxia and
hypoperfusion (pulmonary embolism, myocardial
infarction, hypothermia)
- Miscellaneous
(snake bites, head trauma, anaphylaxis, heat strokes, graft-versus-host
disease, acute
pancreatitis, status epilepticus, acute iron toxicity)
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