Differing Tales of Two Patients after Receiving a Kidney Transplant from a Donor with Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

Table 1

Pertinent laboratory values of the second patient describing the postoperative clinical course.

Labs	Before surgery	48 hours after transplant	4 weeks later/at discharge	2 years after transplant
WBC (×1000/L)	10	8.6	5.2	6
Hemoglobin (gm/dL)	8.6	7.1	11	11.2
Platelets (×1000/L)	289	35	239	188
Prothrombin time (sec)	14	16
Partial thromboplastin time (sec)	30	32
Lactate dehydrogenase (mg/mL)		622
Haptoglobin (mg/dL)		<20
Coombs’ test		Negative
ADAMTS13 activity		59%
HIT antibody PF-4 assay*		Negative
Creatinine (mg/dL)	14	12.5	1.4	1.3

∗HIT: heparin induced thrombocytopenia; PF-4: platelet factor 4.