Three Young Infants with Consumption Coagulopathy
1972 Volume 13 Issue 5 Pages 892-898
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1972 Volume 13 Issue 5 Pages 892-898
Three young infants with consumption coagulopathy are presented. All cases were admitted as emergency cases of severe bleeding, as chief complaint. Coagulation studies and postmortem examination was performed.
Case 1: One month old girl who died of necrotizing enterocolitis 2 days after admission.
Case 2: Four months old girl who died of pneumococcal sepsis 12 hours after admission.
Case 3: A premature infant who died of intracranial hemorrhage and pulmonary hemorrhage at 24 hours of age.
The coagulation studies of all cases revealed decreased platelet counts and prolonged bleeding time, coagulation time, prothrombin time and partial thromboplastin time. Fibrinogen was decreased in only one case. (Case 3).
Postmortem examination was performed on all cases, and two of them had microthrombi in the glomeluli (case 1, 2), and one of them had severe pulmonary and intracranial hemorrhage. (case 3).
