Different Hypercoagulable Profiles in Patients with COVID-19 Admitted to the Internal Medicine Ward and the Intensive Care Unit
Luca Spiezia, Annalisa Boscolo, Christelle Correale, Nicolò Sella, Elisa Pesenti, Luca Beghetto, Elena Campello, Francesco Poletto, Lorenzo Cerruti, Marco Cola, Alessandro De Cassai, Laura Pasin, Eugenio Serra, Roberto Vettor, Anna Maria Cattelan, Paolo Simioni, Paolo Navalesi
Abstract
Coagulation abnormalities were common findings in critically ill patients affected by coronavirus infection disease (COVID)-19 and often correlated to more severe illness and poor prognosis.[1] [2] [3] We recently used Rotational Thromboelastometry (ROTEM) to describe severe hypercoagulable profiles and high incidence of symptomatic venous thromboembolic (VTE) events in a small group of COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory failure admitted to intensive care unit (ICU).[4] However, it remains unclear whether COVID-19 patients with mild clinical symptoms, admitted to internal medicine wards (IMWs), present with different coagulation profiles.