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Query: UNIPROT:P01178 (
oxytocin
)
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A gravida with intrauterine fetal death who developed progressive chronic consumption coagulopathy was treated with heparin. When serial fibrinogen levels fell below 100 mg% and the prothrombin time was significantly prolonged, intravenously injected heparin corrected
hypofibrinogenemia
. A safe delivery followed administration of
oxytocin
. The authors emphasize the infrequent need for heparin therapy in the majority of cases of the intrauterine fetal death syndrome. Therapeutic guidelines for its use in selected cases are reviewed.
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PMID:Consumption coagulopathy associated with intrauterine fetal death: the role of heparin therapy. 3 82