Post-anticoagulant D-dimer is a highly prognostic biomarker of COVID-19 mortality

Autor: Xiaoyu Song, Jiayi Ji, Boris Reva, Himanshu Joshi, Anna Pamela Calinawan, Madhu Mazumdar, Juan P. Wisnivesky, Emanuela Taioli, Pei Wang, Rajwanth R. Veluswamy
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: ERJ Open Research, Vol 7, Iss 3 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2312-0541
23120541
DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00018-2021
Popis: Clinical biomarkers that accurately predict mortality are needed for the effective management of patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) illness. In this study, we determine whether changes in D-dimer levels after anticoagulation are independently predictive of in-hospital mortality. Adult patients hospitalised for severe COVID-19 who received therapeutic anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis were identified from a large COVID-19 database of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City (NY, USA). We studied the ability of post-anticoagulant D-dimer levels to predict in-hospital mortality, while taking into consideration 65 other clinically important covariates including patient demographics, comorbidities, vital signs and several laboratory tests. 1835 adult patients with PCR-confirmed COVID-19 who received therapeutic anticoagulation during hospitalisation were included. Overall, 26% of patients died in the hospital. Significantly different in-hospital mortality rates were observed in patient groups based on mean D-dimer levels and trend following anticoagulation: 49% for the high mean-increase trend group; 27% for the high-decrease group; 21% for the low-increase group; and 9% for the low-decrease group (p
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