This case series describes a novel association between severe disseminated intravascular coagulation and large ventricular mural thrombi following acute myocardial infarction.
Alerts clinicians to possible DIC with large mural thrombi post-MI; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
We describe three patients who developed severe disseminated intravascular coagulation associated with large ventricular mural thrombi shortly after presenting with acute myocardial infarction. To our knowledge this association has not been reported before.
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