Disseminated intravascular coagulation

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Gando, Satoshi ^a   Levi, Marcel ^b   Toh, Cheng Hock ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR CONCENTRATE; BLOOD CLOTTING INHIBITOR; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; THROMBIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 11; PROTEIN C;

BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INJURY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOSIS; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 11 DEFICIENCY; COMPLICATION; FIBRINOLYSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN C DEFICIENCY; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; BLOOD COAGULATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FACTOR XI; FACTOR XI DEFICIENCY; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN C DEFICIENCY; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 85001514691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2016.37     Document Type: Review

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