This exploratory study of a multiplatform randomized trial investigating the effects of therapeutic-dose heparin in early-pandemic hospitalized COVID-19 patient
Many of the complications of severe coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) are caused by blood hyperviscosity driven by marked hyperfibrinogenemia. This results in a distinctive hyperviscosity syndrome which affects areas of high and low shear. A change in blood viscosity causes a threefold inverse change in blood flow, which increases the risk of thrombosis in both arteries and veins despite prophylactic anticoagulation. Increased blood viscosity decreases perfusion of all tissues, including the lungs, heart, and brain. Decreased perfusion of the lungs causes global ventilation-perfusion mismatch which results in silent hypoxemia and decreased efficacy of positive pressure ventilation in treating pulmonary failure in COVID-19. Increased blood viscosity causes a mismatch in oxygen supply and demand in the heart, resulting in myocarditis and ventricular diastolic dysfunction. Decreased perfusion of the brain causes demyelination because of a sublethal cell injury to oligodendrocytes. Hy
Giving moderately ill, hospitalized COVID-19 patients a full dose of a blood thinner improved their chances of leaving the hospital without needing mechanical ventilation. But this strategy did not yield the same results for COVID-19 patients who wer
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Moderately ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19 have better chances of survival if treated with therapeutic-dose anticoagulation, according to an international study involving 121 sites, including UT Southwestern Medical Center.