Coagulation disorders in AFE are called consumption coagulopathy, as the consumption of coagulation factors occurs in the process of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). Clinical tests of coagulation in AFE show low platelet counts and decreased level of coagulation factors, mainly fibrinogen, which results from the exhaustion of these components in the coagulation process; on the other hand, they reveal high levels of D-dimers (products of thrombin-plasmin changes in fibrinogen indicating active coagulation processes and secondary fibrinolysis).