Venous thromboembolism and coronavirus disease 2019 in an ambulatory care setting - A report of 4 cases

• We report four non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients who developed VTE in their course of illness. • None of our patients had major risk factors for developing VTE. • A secondary respiratory worsening of COVID-19 should prompt investigation for the occurrence of VTE. • The use of thromboprohylaxis sh...

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Autores principales: Overstad, Siri, Tjonnfjord, Eirik, Garabet, Lamya, Fronas, Synne, Bergan, Jonas, Aballi, Saad, Ghanima, Waleed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Letter to the Editors-in-Chief
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7303641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32788102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.thromres.2020.06.032
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description • We report four non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients who developed VTE in their course of illness. • None of our patients had major risk factors for developing VTE. • A secondary respiratory worsening of COVID-19 should prompt investigation for the occurrence of VTE. • The use of thromboprohylaxis should be considered in bedridden non-hospitalized patients. • Immobilization may be a major risk factor for developing COVID-19Immobilization may be a major risk factor for developing COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-73036412020-06-19 Venous thromboembolism and coronavirus disease 2019 in an ambulatory care setting - A report of 4 cases Overstad, Siri Tjonnfjord, Eirik Garabet, Lamya Fronas, Synne Bergan, Jonas Aballi, Saad Ghanima, Waleed Thromb Res Letter to the Editors-in-Chief • We report four non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients who developed VTE in their course of illness. • None of our patients had major risk factors for developing VTE. • A secondary respiratory worsening of COVID-19 should prompt investigation for the occurrence of VTE. • The use of thromboprohylaxis should be considered in bedridden non-hospitalized patients. • Immobilization may be a major risk factor for developing COVID-19Immobilization may be a major risk factor for developing COVID-19. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-10 2020-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7303641/ /pubmed/32788102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.thromres.2020.06.032 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editors-in-Chief
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Bergan, Jonas
Aballi, Saad
Ghanima, Waleed
Venous thromboembolism and coronavirus disease 2019 in an ambulatory care setting - A report of 4 cases
title Venous thromboembolism and coronavirus disease 2019 in an ambulatory care setting - A report of 4 cases
title_full Venous thromboembolism and coronavirus disease 2019 in an ambulatory care setting - A report of 4 cases
title_fullStr Venous thromboembolism and coronavirus disease 2019 in an ambulatory care setting - A report of 4 cases
title_full_unstemmed Venous thromboembolism and coronavirus disease 2019 in an ambulatory care setting - A report of 4 cases
title_short Venous thromboembolism and coronavirus disease 2019 in an ambulatory care setting - A report of 4 cases
title_sort venous thromboembolism and coronavirus disease 2019 in an ambulatory care setting - a report of 4 cases
topic Letter to the Editors-in-Chief
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7303641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32788102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.thromres.2020.06.032
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