Abstract
Association of a circulating factor XI anticoagulant and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is described in a 33 yr old woman. The patient had rheumatoid arthritis and a bacterial infection treated with antibiotics; the anticoagulant was presumably secondary to systemic lupus erythematosus. The low levels of factor XI did not prevent the DIC from developing.

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