Disseminated intravascular coagulation
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Rishi Desai, MD, MPHContributors
Tanner Marshall, MS
Disseminated intravascular coagulation, or DIC, describes a situation in which the process of hemostasis, which is when after blood vessel wall injury, liquid blood rapidly becomes a gel, called coagulation or clotting, starts to run out of control.
When this happens, lots and lots of blood clots start to form in blood vessels serving various organs, leading to organ ischemia.
DIC, though, is also called a consumption coagulopathy, because all this clotting consumes platelets and clotting factors.
Without enough platelets circulating in the blood, other parts of the body begin to bleed with even the slightest damage to the blood vessel walls. So paradoxically, patients have too much and too little clotting.
Normally, after a cut and damage to the endothelium, or inner lining of blood vessel walls, thereās an immediate vasoconstriction or narrowing of the blood vessel which limits the amount of blood flow.
After that, some platelets adhere to the damaged vessel wall, and become activated and then recruit additional platelets to form a plug.
The formation of the platelet plug is called primary hemostasis.
After that, the coagulation cascade is activated. First off in the blood thereās a set of clotting factors, most of which are proteins synthesized by the liver, and usually these are inactive and just floating around in the blood.
The coagulation cascade starts when one of these proteins gets proteolytically cleaved.
This active protein then proteolytically cleaves and activates the next clotting factor, and so on.
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