THE DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATIO N SYNDROME IN MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION

To establish the incidence of the disseminated intravascular coagulati on (DIC) syndrome, 76 patients who had died from acute myocardial infa rction were clinically and anatomically analysed. The studies indicate d that microcirculatory thrombosis in myocardial infarction occurred i n the first to early second weeks of its development and localized in minor veins of one organ and only in 21.4% of cases it involved three organs or more. The DIC-syndrome was morphologically evidenced only in 19.1% of the patients having a history of cardiogenic shock. Microcir culatory thrombosis more frequently occurred in females. Old age, pers istent hypertension, diabetes mellitus were found to predispose to its development.