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  • COVID-19–Associated Coagulo...
    Görlinger, Klaus; Dirkmann, Daniel; Gandhi, Ajay; Simioni, Paolo

    Anesthesia and analgesia, 2020-November, Letnik: 131, Številka: 5
    Journal Article

    Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) frequently experience a coagulopathy associated with a high incidence of thrombotic events leading to poor outcomes. Here, biomarkers of coagulation (such as D-dimer, fibrinogen, platelet count), inflammation (such as interleukin-6), and immunity (such as lymphocyte count) as well as clinical scoring systems (such as sequential organ failure assessment SOFA, International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis disseminated intravascular coagulation ISTH DIC, and sepsis-induced coagulopathy SIC score) can be helpful in predicting clinical course, need for hospital resources (such as intensive care unit ICU beds, intubation and ventilator therapy, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ECMO) and patient’s outcome in patients with COVID-19. However, therapeutic options are actually limited to unspecific supportive therapy. Whether viscoelastic testing can provide additional value in predicting clinical course, need for hospital resources and patient’s outcome or in guiding anticoagulation in COVID-19–associated coagulopathy is still incompletely understood and currently under investigation (eg, in the rotational thromboelastometry analysis and standard coagulation tests in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 ROHOCO study). This article summarizes what we know already about COVID-19–associated coagulopathy and—perhaps even more importantly—characterizes important knowledge gaps.