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Case Reports
. 1980 Aug;6(4):211-3.
doi: 10.1007/BF01687159.

Afibrinogenemia and blunt head injury

J G Tinnemans, S M Gerritsen
Case Reports

Afibrinogenemia and blunt head injury

J G Tinnemans et al. Intensive Care Med. 1980 Aug.

Abstract

A case is described of acute defibrination following blunt head injury in a patient with a Spitz-Holter drain. The cause of the disseminated intravascular coagulation is thought to be due to brain thromboplastins entering the systemic circulation through the Spitz-Holter drain, thus bypassing the blood-brain barrier.

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