title: Fatality from disseminated intravascular coagulation complicating total hip arthroplasty: a case report.
abstract: Following a routine hybrid total hip arthroplasty in an eighty-two year-old female, profuse bleeding occurred through the suction drain immediately postoperatively. The patient was found to have acute disseminated intravascular coagulation. Despite early recognition and treatment the patient died fourteen days later.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Sporer
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Callaghan
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004211:Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D017707:Erythrocyte Transfusion; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006400:Hematocrit; D006622:Hip Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D015207:Osteoarthritis, Hip / Q000601:surgery; D017713:Platelet Transfusion