[The diagnosis and clinical assessment of the disseminated intravascular coagulation syndrome in complicated cancer of the gastrointestinal tract].

Under study were the state of the hemostasis system, the level of endogenous intoxication and anti-infectional defense in 63 patients with complicated carcinoma of the gastro-intestinal tract (GIT). It was established that the patients had the syndrome of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) of blood which at first was of local character. Acute complications of carcinoma of GIT, first of all purulent peritonitis and profuse gastro-intestinal bleedings, aggravate endotoxicosis and facilitate the development of the acute DIC syndrome. A conception of the development of the intoxicative DIC syndrome is presented and proposed are informative methods of the assessment of hemostasis in emergency surgery of carcinoma of the GIT.