Sunday, May 10, 2020

Autopsies of COVID-19 patients reveal clotting concerns

study of autopsy findings of the first 12 patients who died of COVID-19 in a hospital in Hamburg, Germany, has found that 7 (58%) of them had undiagnosed deep vein thrombosis, suggesting that the virus may cause abnormal blood clotting.
In the prospective cohort study, published yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers discovered that the direct cause of death in four patients was massive pulmonary embolism from deep vein blood clots in the legs that lodged in a lung artery, causing a blockage.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/05/autopsies-covid-19-patients-reveal-clotting-concerns?fbclid=IwAR29FfIhYHjGT2kdRHuCXnOZhWDLZOJZMSNsZSp-Nz2JviL8PoQQxQua7w4

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