To diagnose DIC, your doctor may recommend blood tests to look at your blood cells and the clotting process. For these tests, a small amount of blood is drawn from a blood vessel, usually in your arm.

What is elevated in DIC?

(Consumption Coagulopathy; Defibrination Syndrome) Severe, rapidly evolving DIC is diagnosed by demonstrating thrombocytopenia, an elevated partial thromboplastin time and prothrombin time, increased levels of plasma D-dimers (or serum fibrin degradation products), and a decreasing plasma fibrinogen level.

What labs are elevated in DIC?

Patients with DIC can present with a wide range of abnormalities in their laboratory values. Typically, prolonged coagulation times, thrombocytopenia, high levels of fibrin degradation products (FDPs), elevated D-dimer levels, and microangiopathic pathology (schistocytes) on peripheral smears are suggestive findings.