Extremely High Incidence of Lower Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis in 48 Patients With Severe COVID-19 in Wuhan

Circulation. 2020 Jul 14;142(2):181-183. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.047407. Epub 2020 May 15.

Authors

Bin Ren^#¹, Feifei Yan^#¹, Zhouming Deng^#¹, Sheng Zhang^#, Lingfei Xiao¹, Meng Wu^#², Lin Cai^#¹

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Orthopedics (B.R., F.Y., Z.D., S.Z., L.X., L.C.), Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Province, China.
² Ultrasound (M.W.), Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Province, China.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 32412320
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.047407

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; venous thrombosis.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Anticoagulants / therapeutic use
Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification
COVID-19
Comorbidity
Coronavirus Infections / complications
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products / analysis
Humans
Incidence
Lower Extremity*
Male
Middle Aged
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / complications
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
SARS-CoV-2
Severity of Illness Index
Venous Thrombosis / complications
Venous Thrombosis / diagnosis*
Venous Thrombosis / drug therapy
Venous Thrombosis / epidemiology

Substances

Anticoagulants
Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products
fibrin fragment D