1992 Volume 31 Issue 12 Pages 1392-1395
A case of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) w th acute liver dysfunction is described. A 37-year-old man with SLE developed acute DIC and marked liver damage after fracture of the right clavicle and pharyngitis. Treatment with high-dose steroids, heparin, antithrombin III, gabexate mesilate, and antibiotics resulted in prompt improvement. The recovery of an SLE patient after acute DIC and marked liver damageis considered very rare. We report here such a case and discuss the previous reports.
(Internal Medicine 31: 1392-1395, 1992)
