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Fatality from disseminated intravascular coagulation complicating total hip arthroplasty: a case report
The Iowa Orthopaedic Journal
|January 1, 1997
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.