The importance of D-DIMER values in COVID-19 patients with pulmonary thromboembolism in the two first years of the pandemia

Autor: Tania Leme da Rocha Martinez, André Luis Valera Gasparoto, Ana Paula Pantoja Margeotto, Adenilton Rampinelli, Anita L R Saldanha, Eduardo Neris, Thomaz Braga Ceglias, Raoni Rego Godinho, Otávio Castilho
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: International Journal of Family & Community Medicine. 6:56-57
ISSN: 2577-8269
DOI: 10.15406/ijfcm.2022.06.00264
Popis: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a big challenge to the healthcare community and many stakeholders. According to clinical studies, D-Dimer assays may be the "first line" of technical screening in symptomatic outpatients with suspected venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism. This same affirmation may be applied to COVID-19 as its cause. In this study the comparison of the first two years of the COVID-19 appears the tendency of treatment decision making based in D-Dimer levels being a less important parameter. Many patients with COVID-19 have been observed to present with prominently elevated D-Dimers, findings which have been postulated to reflect underlying thromboembolic burden, which have been associated with increased mortality among such patients.
Databáze: OpenAIRE