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Impaired fibrinolysis in critically ill COVID-19 patients

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BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA
卷 126, 期 3, 页码 590-598

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DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.12.010

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coagulation; COVID-19; critically ill; D-dimer; fibrinogen; fibrinolysis; tissue plasminogen activator; viscoelastic test

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Critically ill COVID-19 patients exhibit a hypercoagulable state with impaired fibrinolysis, characterized by increased clot firmness and decreased fibrinolytic response in whole blood coagulation tests. This hypofibrinolytic state may be at least partially due to a decreased fibrinolytic response.
Background: Critically ill coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients present with a hypercoagulable state with high rates of macrovascular and microvascular thrombosis, for which hypofibrinolysis might be an important contributing factor. Methods: We retrospectively analysed 20 critically ill COVID-19 patients at Innsbruck Medical University Hospital whose coagulation function was tested with ClotPro (R) and compared with that of 60 healthy individuals at Augsburg University Clinic. ClotPro is a viscoelastic whole blood coagulation testing device. It includes the TPA test, which uses tissue factor (TF)-activated whole blood with added recombinant tissue-derived plasminogen activator (r-tPA) to induce fibrinolysis. For this purpose, the lysis time (LT) is measured as the time from when maximum clot firmness (MCF) is reached until MCF falls by 50%. We compared COVID-19 patients with prolonged LT in the TPA test and those with normal LT. Results: Critically ill COVID-19 patients showed hypercoagulability in ClotPro assays. MCF was higher in the EX test (TF-activated assay), IN test (ellagic acid-activated assay), and FIB test (functional fibrinogen assay) with decreased maximum lysis (ML) in the EX test (hypofibrinolysis) and highly prolonged TPA test LT (decreased fibrinolytic response), as compared with healthy persons. COVID-19 patients with decreased fibrinolytic response showed higher fibrinogen levels, higher thrombocyte count, higher C-reactive protein levels, and decreased ML in the EX test and IN test. Conclusion: Critically ill COVID-19 patients have impaired fibrinolysis. This hypofibrinolytic state could be at least partially dependent on a decreased fibrinolytic response.

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