{"id":865,"date":"2020-09-11T21:20:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T04:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=865"},"modified":"2020-09-11T21:20:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T04:20:37","slug":"elevated-d-dimers-and-lack-of-anticoagulation-predict-pe-in-severe-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/11\/elevated-d-dimers-and-lack-of-anticoagulation-predict-pe-in-severe-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevated D-Dimers and Lack of Anticoagulation Predict PE in Severe COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pulmonary embolism (PE) was diagnosed in 44\/162 (27%) patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in a university hospital in France who had severe respiratory disease or rapid clinical worsening and who received computed tomography pulmonary angiography. Elevated D-dimer level (OR=4.0 per additional quartile) and lack of anticoagulant therapy (OR=4.5) were associated with confirmed PE. D-dimer level &gt;2590 ng\/mL was associated with a 17-fold increase in the adjusted risk of PE.\n<p><em>Mouhat et al. (Sept 9, 2020). Elevated D-Dimers and Lack of Anticoagulation Predict PE in Severe COVID-19 Patients. The European Respiratory Journal. <a href=\"http:\/\/discover.uw.edu\/FqZQx00Zh3A000OA000Oy81\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1183\/13993003.01811-2020<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulmonary embolism (PE) was diagnosed in 44\/162 (27%) patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in a university hospital in France who had severe respiratory disease or rapid clinical worsening and who received computed tomography pulmonary angiography. Elevated D-dimer level (OR=4.0 per additional quartile) and lack of anticoagulant therapy (OR=4.5) were associated with confirmed PE. D-dimer level &gt;2590&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/11\/elevated-d-dimers-and-lack-of-anticoagulation-predict-pe-in-severe-covid-19-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}