title: Severe disseminated intravascular coagulation caused by congestive heart failure and left ventricular thrombus.
abstract: We present a patient who visited emergency department owing to the skin manifestation of disseminated intravascular coagulation. Recent anterior myocardial infarction induced congestive heart failure and left ventricular thrombus, which were considered to be the cause of disseminated intravascular coagulation. Anticoagulant therapy with heparin and warfarin was used successfully to treat the disseminated intravascular coagulation and left ventricular thrombus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Chi-Mei Foundation Hospital, No. 901 Chung Hwa Road, Yung Kang, Tainan 710, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Kuo-Tai
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Hung-Jung
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Wei-Jing
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D004211:Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / Q000209:etiology*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000150:complications*