The test can help diagnose disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Abrupt low levels are often related to excessive use of fibrinogen. Persistently low levels may be due to no or decreased ...

THE appearance of a severe hemorrhagic diathesis associated with the absence, or extremely low levels, of circulating fibrinogen has long been known in certain clinical conditions such as ...

Methods: Patients with prostate cancer seen at MSKCC between 2000 and 2006 were included if they had a single fibrinogen level < 150 mg/dL and two of the following: a platelet count of less than 150 x ...

It is now generally recognized that in disseminated intravascular coagulation the blood platelets and consumption coagulation factors (factors II, V and VIII and fibrinogen) are characteristically ...