Tag: Acute fatty liver of pregnancy

Introduction Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) is a very serious and life-threatining coagulation cascade disorder that is sometimes seen in patients with severe physiologic stressors such as sepsis, obstetric complications (for example, placental abruption, retained products of conception, or amniotic fluid embolization) or major tissue injury from trauma, burns, shock, snake bites, or malignancy (for example, acute promyelocytic leukemia).…