Shock, acute disseminated intravascular coagulation, and microvascular thrombosis: Is 'shock liver' the unrecognized provocateur of ischemic limb necrosis?

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 231-235

  Warkentin, Ted E ^a   Pai, M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute; Antithrombin III; Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Gangrene; Liver failure; Protein C

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN; PROTEIN C; THROMBIN; WARFARIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; COUMARIN NECROSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; GANGRENE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC LIMB NECROSIS; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MICROVASCULAR THROMBOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHOCK; SHOCK LIVER; THROMBOSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOTTING; COMPLICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; ISCHEMIA; LIMB; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; METABOLISM; TIME FACTOR; VASCULARIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD COAGULATION FACTORS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; EXTREMITIES; GANGRENE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SHOCK; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84958169585     PISSN: 15387933     EISSN: 15387836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jth.13219     Document Type: Article

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