Diagnosis and management of sepsis-induced coagulopathy and disseminated intravascular coagulation
Diagnosis and management of sepsis-induced coagulopathy and disseminated intravascular coagulation
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DOI:
10.1111/jth.14578
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发表时间:
2019-08-13
影响因子:
10.4
通讯作者:
Levi, Marcel
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作者:
Iba, Toshiaki;Levy, Jerrold H.;Levi, Marcel
The International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) in 2001 defined disseminated intravascular congestion (DIC) as “an ac‐quired syndrome characterized by the intravascular activation of co‐agulation with loss of localization arising from different causes that can originate from and cause damage to the microvasculature, which if sufficiently severe, can produce organ dysfunction.” 1 Current in‐formation supports the concept that DIC in sepsis is a coagulation disorder induced by infection, but also represents an acute systemic inflammatory response that leads to endothelial dysfunction. 2, 3 In sepsis, endothelial injury and subsequent tissue injury due to circu‐latory abnormalities cause multi‐organ failure, and the ensuing DIC is a thromboinflammatory response that affects patient outcomes. 4 The effectiveness of anticoagulant therapy for sepsis‐associated DIC is controversial despite multiple randomized controlled trials (RCTs); however, these studies were performed in patients with sep‐sis but not consistently with concomitant DIC. Recent studies report that anticoagulant therapy may improve outcomes in septic patients with coagulopathy or DIC, 5, 6 and similarly subgroup analyses of an‐ticoagulant therapy in large‐scale RCTs reported trends toward a greater risk reduction in mortality only in the subgroup with coagu‐lopathy or DIC. 7, 8 As a result, we believe identifying septic patients with coagulopathy is pivotal for targeting anticoagulant therapy. 9 However, screening all patients with multiple coagulation tests is costly, and as a result, simple and easy‐to‐use diagnostic criteria have been proposed by the Scientific and Standardization Committee (SSC) on DIC of the ISTH diagnostic criteria for overt DIC. 9 Screening for overt DIC on the day of intensive care unit (ICU) admission was associated with lower mortality, and the association became stron‐ger if the screening was repeated 2 days later, suggesting that DIC screening by itself might lead to improved outcomes. 10 However, patients with advanced coagulopathy, including many with overt DIC based on ISTH criteria, may have illness progression that is no longer amenable to benefit from anticoagulant therapy. 11 Therefore, the DIC SSC proposed a new category identifying an earlier phase of DIC, called “sepsis‐induced coagulopathy”(SIC). 12 The SIC diag‐nostic criteria are important for clinical practice to facilitate early recognition and provide guidance for inclusion criteria for future DIC studies. In this guidance document, we describe the different char‐acteristics of overt DIC and SIC, and outline a two‐step sequential