title: Successful treatment with recombinant factor VIIa for intractable bleeding at pelvic surgery.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Postoperative bleeding may be complicated by failure to identify the site of bleeding, multiple bleeding points, and persistent hemorrhage despite surgical intervention.
  
  
  METHODS
  Activated recombinant factor VII was used successfully in a patient with life-threatening postsurgical bleeding after resection of two large extraperitoneal pelvic sarcomas.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In severe hemorrhage, hemostasis can be achieved with activated recombinant factor VII.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Gynecology, Medical University, Lublin, Poland. obgyn@panaceum.am.lublin.pl
authors.forename: Jarosław
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Daniloś
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goral
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Paluszkiewicz
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Przesmycki
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kotarski
mesh_terms: D015942:Factor VIIa / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010386:Pelvic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D019106:Postoperative Hemorrhage / Q000188:drug therapy*; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D015942:Factor VIIa