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To: RummyChick

https://www.cardiosmart.org/healthwise/tp22/264s/pec/tp22264spec

What is disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)?
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a rare, life-threatening condition that prevents a person’s blood from clotting normally. It may cause excessive clotting (thrombosis) or bleeding (hemorrhage) throughout the body and lead to shock, organ failure, and death.

In DIC, the body’s natural ability to regulate blood clotting does not function properly. This causes the blood’s clotting cells (platelets) to clump together and clog small blood vessels throughout the body. This excessive clotting damages organs, destroys blood cells, and depletes the supply of platelets and other clotting factors so that the blood is no longer able to clot normally. This often causes widespread bleeding, both internally and externally.


186 posted on 05/09/2020 7:13:58 AM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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To: RummyChick

this is no suprise

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28122835

CONCLUSIONS:
T2DM was associated with a higher risk of DIC, particularly when recently treated with insulin, as well as among admissions with solid tumour or non-septic severe infection


190 posted on 05/09/2020 7:21:06 AM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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To: RummyChick

Disseminated intravascular coagulation, or DIC, is a complicated condition that can occur when someone has severe sepsis or septic shock. Both blood clotting and difficulty with clotting may occur, causing a vicious cycle. Small blood clots can develop throughout your bloodstream, especially in the microscopic blood vessels called capillaries, blocking the blood flow to many parts of your body, including your limbs and your organs. This blood flow is needed to bring oxygen and nutrients to the tissues. On the reverse side of the cycle, DIC can cause increased bleeding because the body is using up so many of the blood clotting proteins for the multiple blood clots in the blood vessels that there are not enough of them left to clot the blood elsewhere.

https://www.sepsis.org/sepsisand/disseminated-intravascular-coagulation-dic/


191 posted on 05/09/2020 7:23:03 AM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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