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To: Janice Shell who wrote (429)	6/18/2000 11:27:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 1576

In the case I was mentioning, the internal bleeding was untreatable, and ultimately fatal, despite the fact that the child had multiple blood transfusions. The condition, disseminated intravascular coagulation ("DIC"), is a disorder of coagulation, which causes the clotting systems in the blood to be overstimulated, causing blood to clot inappropriately, which causes microclots which block blood flow to internal organs. The blood then lacks clotting factor, which has all been used up, and then every place there is trauma (injections, tubes, biopsies), there is bleeding which can't be stopped. It sometimes occurs after virus infections, and can also be caused by trauma and stress. It is rare, but I've printed out literally hundreds of abstracts from PubMed about cases where DIC occurred after Epstein-Barr virus infection.