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Kasabach-Merritt syndrome

Kasabach-Merritt syndrome (KMS), also known as hemangioma-thrombocytopenia syndrome, is a rare disorder characterized by profound thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, and subsequent consumptive coagulopathy in association with vascular tumors, particularly kaposiform hemangioendothelioma or tufted angioma.

Hemolytic anemia

A type of anemia caused by premature destruction of red blood cells (hemolysis).

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26578498	FEMALE	Adult
	Prenatal diagnosis of Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome in utero.
	Tanaka K, Miyazaki N, Matsushima M, Yagishita R, Izawa T, Tanigaki S, Sakai K, Iwashita M. J Med Ultrason (2001). 2015;42(1):109-12.
	We believe the fetus's condition was complicated with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome in utero, which caused acute hemolytic anemia leading to high-output cardiac failure and fetal hydrops.