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  • Doctors increasingly concerned about blood clotting risk in severe COVID-19 patients

    Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/corona...ents-1.4914556

    Doctors increasingly concerned about blood clotting risk in severe COVID-19 patients
    Avis Favaro
    Medical Correspondent, CTV National News
    Elizabeth St. Philip
    CTV News
    Nicole Bogart
    CTVNews.ca Writer
    Published Monday, April 27, 2020 10:00PM EDT

    TORONTO -- An increasing number of COVID-19 patients are developing fast moving, potentially life-threatening blood clots that may lead to stroke or limb amputation in some cases.

    Doctors on the front lines say these “substantial” clots are forming in veins not normally affected by critical illness and are difficult to break down even with the use of blood thinners, presenting a new challenge in treating and understanding the novel coronavirus.

    “Many patients infected with COVID are getting large blood clots in veins and arteries, but also very small blood clots even in the smaller blood vessels of the lung, of the kidney, of the brain,” Dr. James Downar, specialist in critical and palliative care at The Ottawa Hospital, told CTV News...
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