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Middle East J Anaesthesiol · Jun 1990
Case ReportsDisseminated intravascular coagulopathy diagnosed by computed tomography.
- F M Messahel and M A Seraj.
- College of Medicine and King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- Middle East J Anaesthesiol. 1990 Jun 1;10(5):533-6.
AbstractA 24-year-old man was brought to casualty after a fall. He suffered from head injury and multiple fractures. On arrival he was apneic and the heart was at a standstill. Resuscitation was successful and the patient was taken to the CT room to assess the extent of his head trauma. At the end of the procedure, maintaining adequate ventilation proved to be very difficult; the blood pressure was rapidly falling and the ECG showed severe bradycardia. Asystole followed and resuscitation was unsuccessful. Postmortem CT scanning of the chest revealed that the tracheobronchial tree was flooded with blood and coagulation profile showed the picture of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. CT may be useful in the diagnosis of some pathological conditions when autopsy is difficult to perform.
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