The DIC syndrome as a complication of the surgical treatment of urolithiasis in urology patients]

The authors discuss the causes of the DIC syndrome in urological patients operated on for urolithiasis. They enumerate the factors predisposing to the DIC syndrome and causing it. The predisposing factors are chronic renal insufficiency and metabolic disorders caused by azotemia, infectious inflammatory complications of urolithiasis, and intoxication. The causes of the disease are massive blood loss involving disorders of the hemodynamics and blood rheology, bacterial shock, and other stress conditions. A protocol for treating this complication and validation of pathogenetic therapy is offered.