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Coagulação intravascular disseminada

Evidence last reviewed: 24 Apr 2026
Topic last updated: 04 Nov 2021

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de doenças subjacentes
  • oligúria, hipotensão ou taquicardia
  • púrpura fulminante, gangrena ou cianose acral
  • delirium ou coma
  • petéquias, equimose, exsudação ou hematúria
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Risk factors

  • trauma maior/queimadura/destruição de órgão ou sepse/infecção grave
  • doenças ou complicações obstétricas graves
  • tumores sólidos e malignidades hematológicas
  • reações tóxicas ou imunológicas graves
  • doenças vasculares graves (grandes aneurismas da aorta ou hemangiomas gigantes)
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • contagem plaquetária
  • tempo de protrombina (TP)
  • fibrinogênio
  • dímero D/produtos de degradação da fibrina
  • tempo de tromboplastina parcial ativada (TTPa)
  • estudos de imagem ou outros exames
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Tests to consider

  • tempo de trombina
  • fatores V, VIII, X, XIII
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Emerging tests

  • citocinas inflamatórias
  • dímero D (teste de anticorpo monoclonal)
  • antitrombina III
  • fibrinopeptídeo A (FPA)
  • fragmentos 1 e 2 da protrombina

Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

baixo risco de sangramento

alto risco de sangramento ou sangramento ativo

ONGOING

coagulação intravascular disseminada (CIVD) crônica

Contributors

Authors

Haibo Wang, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor - Gratis

LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport (LSUHSC-S)

Shreveport

LA

Staff Anesthesiologist

JPS Health Network

Department of Anesthesiology

Fort Worth

TX

Disclosures

HW declares that he has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

Dr Haibo Wang would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Frank G. Zavisca, a previous contributor to this topic.

Disclosures

FGZ declared he had no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Alan Kaye, MD, PhD, DABPM

Professor and Chairman

Department of Anesthesiology

LSU School of Medicine

New Orleans

LA

Disclosures

AK is on the speakers' bureau of Baxter Corporation and Hospira Corporation.

Cheng-Hock Toh, MB, ChB, MD, FRCP, FRCPath

Professor of Haematology

University of Liverpool

Liverpool

UK

Disclosures

CHT is an author of a reference cited in this topic.

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Key articles

Franchini M, Lippi G, Manzato F. Recent acquisitions in the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of disseminated intravascular coagulation. Thromb J. 2006 Feb 21;4:4.Full text  Abstract

Taylor FB Jr, Toh CH, Hoots WK, et al; Scientific Subcommittee on Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH). Towards definition, clinical and laboratory criteria, and a scoring system for disseminated intravascular coagulation. Thromb Haemost. 2001 Nov;86(5):1327-30. Abstract

Levi M, Toh CH, Thachil J, et al. Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of disseminated intravascular coagulation. British Committee for Standards in Haematology. Br J Haematol. 2009 Apr;145(1):24-33.Full text  Abstract

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