“…When the indication for heparin therapy was evaluated on the basis of analytical criteria compatible with and characteristic of consumption coagulopathy and/or secondary fibrinolysis, the prognosis with regard to hemorrhagic episodes was not altered. Yet, according to comparative data, the survival rate of patients with DIC due to septicemia was higher, although not statistically significant, in the groups which received heparin [30,112,124]. In 108 patients suffering from shock of different etiology, complicated by acute DIC, those with hemorrhages mainly due to secondary fibrinolysis had a better prognosis than those cases, especially with septic shock, who had no manifestation of bleeding [65].…”