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#ThromboCOVID_21A TEG findings in #COVID_19. As we could suspect, findings don't suggest overt DIC, but hypercoagulability: decreased R and K values, increased angle and MA. Look also at those FVIII and vWF values!

First(and tiny) step in order to change our thromboprophylaxis?

#ThromboCOVID_21A TEG findings in #COVID_19. As we could suspect, findings don't suggest overt DIC, but hypercoagulability: decreased R and K values, increased angle and MA. Look also at those FVIII and vWF values! First(and tiny) step in order to change our thromboprophylaxis?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jth.14850

Hypercoagulability of COVID‐19 patients in Intensive Care Unit. A Report of Thromboelastography...

Background The severe inflammatory state secondary to Covid‐19 leads to a severe derangement of hemostasis that has been recently described as a state of disseminated intravascular coagulation...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jth.14850

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