Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China.
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...4 COVID-19 may predispose to both venous and arterial thromboembolic disease due to excessive inflammation, hypoxia, immobilisation and diffuse intravascular coagulation (DIC).(1-4) Remarkably, thrombotic complications have hardly been described....
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...Remarkably, thrombotic complications have hardly been described.(1-4) Precise knowledge of the incidence of thrombotic complications in COVID-19 patients is important for decision making with regard to intensity of thromboprophylaxis, especially in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) who are at highest thrombotic risk....
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...Despite systematic thrombosis prophylaxis, the 31% incidence of thrombotic complications in ICU patients with COVID-19 infections is remarkably high and well comparable to the VTE incidence in other patient categories with overt DIC [5]....
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...Notably, none of our patients actually developed DIC....
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...COVID-19 may predispose to both venous and arterial thromboembolic disease due to excessive inflammation, hypoxia, immobilisation and diffuse intravascular coagulation (DIC) [1–4]....
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