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Congenital tufted angioma with persistent low‐grade coagulopathy
Author(s) -
Ramesh R.,
De Silva B.,
Atherton D. J.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2009.03488.x
Subject(s) - coagulopathy , medicine , consumptive coagulopathy , angioma , conservative management , surgery , pediatrics , severe bleeding , intensive care medicine , vascular disease
Summary A female infant, born with a tufted angioma, developed a coagulopathy with prolonged bleeding time, with the risk of progression to Kasabach–Merritt phenomenon. The difficulty in this case was judging the degree of this risk and therefore the most appropriate management. We opted for a conservative approach of observation, which was vindicated by the outcome.