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As doctors learn more about what makes COVID-19 so severe for some patients, they have discovered a mysterious and potentially lethal complication of the disease: blood clots.<\/p>\n
Many doctors have reported seeing an alarming number of COVID-19 patients with blood clots — gel-like clumps in the blood that can cause serious problems, such as heart attack and stroke<\/u>, according to news reports.<\/p>\n
“The number of clotting problems I’m seeing in the ICU [intensive care unit], all related to COVID-19, is unprecedented,” Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, a hematologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, told CNN<\/u>.<\/p>\n\n
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Some doctors started to notice that their COVID-19 patients were developing clots in their legs, even while they were on blood thinners, according to The Washington Post<\/u>. Others reported trouble with dialysis machines for COVID-19 patients, because clots in the patients’ blood would clog the machine tubing, according to CNN.<\/p>\n
In addition, some COVID-19 autopsies have found tiny blood clots throughout the lungs, the Post reported.<\/p>\n
Reports are also surfacing of relatively young people, in their 30s and 40s, who are having strokes after being infected with the new coronavirus, according to CNN<\/u>. It’s known that strokes are often caused by blot clots that break free and travel to vessels in the brain.<\/p>\n
The link between COVID-19 and clots has led some hospitals to put all COVID-19 patients on low doses of blood thinners to prevent clots, according to CNN.<\/p>\n
It’s not uncommon for patients in the ICU to experience blood clots, but the level of clotting with COVID-19 does appear out of the ordinary, CNN reported. A recent study from the Netherlands, published in the journal Thrombosis Research<\/u>, found that out of 184 COVID-19 patients in the ICU, more than 30% experienced some type of clotting issue. This number is “alarming,” Dr. Behnood Bikdeli, cardiovascular medicine fellow at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, told CNN.<\/p>\n
Given that COVID-19 is a respiratory illness, doctors expected the most serious effects to be in the lungs, not the blood. It’s still unclear why COVID-19 patients are experiencing these clots.<\/p>\n
The clots could be the result of an overactive immune system<\/u>, which leads to an imbalance in “clotting factors” that can cause clotting or bleeding, the Post reported.<\/p>\n
But doctors note that many COVID-19 patients in the ICU also have other risk factors for blood clots, such as diabetes, heart disease<\/u> and high blood pressure, according to CNN.<\/p>\n
Doctors say there is an urgent need to study this issue and whether blood thinners can help COVID-19 patients, CNN reported.<\/p>\n
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