|Articles|February 4, 2010

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Find out the common endpoint of causes of DIC.

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“Many clinically diverse disorders can initiate DIC, but they share certain disease mechanisms that result in a common endpoint: excessive systemic circulating activities of thrombin and plasmin.”

-Justin D. Thomason, DVM; Clay A. Calvert, DVM, DACVIM; and Craig E. Greene, DVM, MS, DACVIM

From The pathophysiology of DIC: When the hemostatic system malfunctions

 

 

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