TABLE 1.

Common etiologies of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy

Type	Cause
Infection	Bacterial (gram‐negative sepsis, gram‐positive sepsis) Rickettsiosis (rocky mountain spotted fever, scrub typhus) Viral (HIV, CMV, HSV, rotavirus, influenza, varicella‐zoster virus, Ebola, dengue, COVID‐19) Fungal (histoplasmsis, candida sepsis, aspergillosis, Candida auris) Parasitic (malaria, leishmaniasis, babesiosis)
Tissue injury	Trauma Burns Hyperthermia Rhabdomyolysis Surgery Frostbite
Malignancy	Hematological malignancy (acute promyelocytic leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia) Solid tumor (prostate carcinoma, gastric carcinoma, pancreatic carcinoma, colon carcinoma, breast carcinoma) Metastases
Obstetrical complications	Abruptio placentae Pre‐eclampsia Eclampsia Acute fatty liver of pregnancy Amniotic fluid embolism Septic abortion Intrauterine fetal demise
Coagulation disorders	Protein C deficiency Antithrombin III deficiency
Other	Hypoxia Hypoxemia Liver disease/hepatic failure Toxins (viper venom, insect bites) Pancreatitis Giant hemangioma Severe inflammatory bowel disease

Abbreviations: CMV, cytomegalovirus; COVID‐19, Coronovirus‐2019; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; HSV, human herpes virus.