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consumption coagulopathy

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coagulopathy /co·ag·u·lop·a·thy/ (ko-ag″u-lop´ah-the) any disorder of blood coagulation.
consumption coagulopathy  disseminated intravascular coagulation.

consumption coagulopathy

consumption coagulopathy.
coagulopathy [ko-ag″u-lop´ah-the]
any disorder of blood coagulation.
consumption coagulopathy disseminated intravascular coagulation.

coagulopathy
any disorder of blood coagulation. See also hemophilia.

consumption coagulopathy
a bleeding tendency due to a reduction in clotting factors caused by their utilization. See also disseminated intravascular coagulation.
disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC)
see disseminated intravascular coagulation.
hepatic coagulopathy
impaired synthesis of most clotting factors, including factors I, II, V, VII, IX and X, as well as other substances involved in the fibrinolytic system, in severe liver disease can cause significant abnormalities in coagulation.

consumption coagulopathy
Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy Hematology A condition characterized by ↑ platelet consumption with coagulation factor depletion–prolonged PT, PTT, ↑ fibrinolysis–generation of fibrin split products Etiology Sepsis, extensive burns, trauma, retained dead fetus, heat stroke, mismatched blood transfusion, metastatic CA, some forms of leukemia Clinical Severe bleeding, bruising


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Cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass is accomplished by complex alterations of hemostasis, including acquired dysfunction of platelets, consumption coagulopathy and increased fibrinolysis.
 
 
 
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