Comparing DIC scores: Not an easy task indeed

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 651-652

  Dempfle, Carl Erik ^a  

^a University Clinic of Mannheim   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; D DIMER; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRIN DERIVATIVE; FIBRIN RELATED MARKER; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; PROCOAGULANT; SOLUBLE FIBRIN COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EDITORIAL; FIBRIN FORMATION; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD PLATELETS; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FIBRIN; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; KINETICS; PLATELET COUNT; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RISK;

EID: 70449586838     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2009.11.002     Document Type: Editorial

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