WASHINGTON, April 28 — After he had spent nearly three weeks in an intensive care unit being treated for Covid-19, Broadway and TV actor Nick Cordero's doctors were forced to amputate his right leg. The 41-year-old's blood flow had been impeded by a clot: Yet another dangerous complication of the...
The NYU Langone Hospital in New York has a patient suffering from a lack of blood flow to both feet and both hands and an amputation may be necessary. — Reuters pic
To be sure, so-called “thrombotic events” occur for a variety of reasons among intensive care patients, but the rates among Covid-19 patients are far higher than would be otherwise expected. Blood clots aren't just dangerous for our limbs, but can make their way to the lungs, heart or brain, where they may cause lethal pulmonary embolisms, heart attacks, and strokes.
People with severe forms of Covid-19 often have underlying medical conditions like heart or lung disease — which are themselves linked to higher rates of clotting. There could also be something about the virus itself that is causing coagulation, which has some precedent in other viral illnesses.last week showed that the virus can infect the inner cell layer of organs and of blood vessels, called the endothelium. This, in theory, could interfere with the clotting process.According to Brosnahan, while thinners like Heparin are effective in some patients, they don't work for all patients because the clots are at times too small.
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