[Disseminated intravascular coagulation syndrome in myocardial infarct].

To establish the incidence of the disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) syndrome, 76 patients who had died from acute myocardial infarction were clinically and anatomically analysed. The studies indicated that microcirculatory thrombosis in myocardial infarction occurred in 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. Microcirculatory thrombosis more frequently occurred in females. Old age, persistent hypertension, diabetes mellitus were found to predispose to its development.