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Query: UMLS:C0012739 (
disseminated intravascular coagulation
)
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Two hours following a twin stillbirth at 30 weeks gestation, a 25 year old primipara developed severe postpartum hemorrhage due to uterine atony and complicated by increasing
consumption coagulopathy
. Bilateral catheterization of the internal iliac arteries was attempted but only achieved on the left. For the next 22 hours the patient received 0.2 units per minute of
Pitressin
by intra-arterial infusion. The infusion was done more and more intermittently as the bleeding stopped and the coagulation parameters normalized. An emergency ligation of the internal iliac arteries or an emergency hysterectomy was thus avoided in this patient.
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PMID:[The treatment of a case of postpartum uterine atony with consumption coagulopathy by therapeutic pharmaco angiography (author's transl)]. 30 82
