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- Title
Bleeding events in COVID-19: the other side of the coin?
- Authors
Coppola, Antonietta; Annunziata, Anna; Gioia, Maria Rosaria; Fiorentino, Giuseppe
- Abstract
We present three cases of patients affected by severe SARSCoV-2-related pneumonia treated with a low molecular weight heparin for prevention or treatment of pulmonary embolism, who presented a major bleed, in particular an ileopsoas haematoma that caused severe anaemia; in one case it was fatal. In the recent outbreak of novel coronavirus infection, significantly abnormal coagulation parameters in SARS-CoV-2 infection occur very often, but complications in the opposite direction such as bleeding diathesis are very rare. In these cases, there are different levels of gravity: for one patient the major bleed required the anticoagulant therapy to be stopped until bleeding stabilized, one patient needed interventional radiology and one patient died.
- Subjects
PULMONARY embolism; LOW-molecular-weight heparin; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19 pandemic; BLOOD coagulation disorders
- Publication
Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2021, Vol 91, Issue 3, p92
- ISSN
1122-0643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4081/monaldi.2021.1739