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"Why are so many COVID-19 patients also seeing blood clots?
As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages a world still grappling with vast uncertainty over the virus, a new and unnerving pattern has emerged in some patients.
Though novel coronavirus symptoms thus far have presented chiefly within the respiratory system, the infection is swiftly showing to be an all-out, system-wide assault that reaches far past the lungs. Doctors in hot spots across the globe have begun to report an unexpected prevalence of blood clotting among COVID cases, in what could pose a perfect storm of potentially fatal risk factors.
In New Orleans, a man in his 30s was admitted to the hospital a week into treatment for the flu, severely sick. Developing shortness of breath, chest pain and an abnormally rapid heart rate -- he was tested for coronavirus -- doctors realized those symptoms also are typical of a pulmonary embolism: a potentially deadly blood clot that can move from the legs to the lungs and damage the heart.
The man's blood work already showed heart damage, THOUGH HE HAD NO KNOWN UNDERLYING MEDICAL CONDITIONS, no recent travel, no recent surgeries. His chest scans, shown first to ABC News, revealed a massive clot. Termed a "saddle embolus" because it hooks over branches of both pulmonary arteries, it was severely stressing the right side of the heart, unable to push blood against the clot already in its strained state.
The patient's system, riddled with inflammation -- increasingly a pattern among patients with COVID-19 -- in such a heightened state may have been doing more harm than good because inflammation -- a defensive mechanism in the body -- can increase clotting.
The body's response creates a domino effect that may cause further harm, doctors told ABC News. Patients' systems are strained by numerous factors triggered by the virus -- stressed lungs, severe inflammation -- that set in motion the clotting effect."
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So any idiot who thinks that only old people or people with underlying health issues are at risk, THINK AGAIN!
Lockdown and isolation are a must until the number of virus cases is heavily reduced and can be contained, or a vaccine finally becomes available. Until then EVERYONE IS AT RISK FOR THE WORST THINGS THIS VIRUS CAN DO REGARDLESS OF AGE OR HEALTH STATUS! States that are planning or trying to reopen before they have reduced the virus to manageable levels are going to be KILLING PEOPLE and making this problem WORSE for the entire country!
As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages a world still grappling with vast uncertainty over the virus, a new and unnerving pattern has emerged in some patients.
Though novel coronavirus symptoms thus far have presented chiefly within the respiratory system, the infection is swiftly showing to be an all-out, system-wide assault that reaches far past the lungs. Doctors in hot spots across the globe have begun to report an unexpected prevalence of blood clotting among COVID cases, in what could pose a perfect storm of potentially fatal risk factors.
In New Orleans, a man in his 30s was admitted to the hospital a week into treatment for the flu, severely sick. Developing shortness of breath, chest pain and an abnormally rapid heart rate -- he was tested for coronavirus -- doctors realized those symptoms also are typical of a pulmonary embolism: a potentially deadly blood clot that can move from the legs to the lungs and damage the heart.
The man's blood work already showed heart damage, THOUGH HE HAD NO KNOWN UNDERLYING MEDICAL CONDITIONS, no recent travel, no recent surgeries. His chest scans, shown first to ABC News, revealed a massive clot. Termed a "saddle embolus" because it hooks over branches of both pulmonary arteries, it was severely stressing the right side of the heart, unable to push blood against the clot already in its strained state.
The patient's system, riddled with inflammation -- increasingly a pattern among patients with COVID-19 -- in such a heightened state may have been doing more harm than good because inflammation -- a defensive mechanism in the body -- can increase clotting.
The body's response creates a domino effect that may cause further harm, doctors told ABC News. Patients' systems are strained by numerous factors triggered by the virus -- stressed lungs, severe inflammation -- that set in motion the clotting effect."
Why are so many COVID-19 patients also seeing blood clots?
Doctors in hot spots across the globe have begun to report an unexpected prevalence of blood clotting among COVID cases, in what could pose a perfect storm of potentially fatal risk factors. Developing shortness of breath, chest pain and an abnormally rapid heart rate -- he was tested for...
So any idiot who thinks that only old people or people with underlying health issues are at risk, THINK AGAIN!
Lockdown and isolation are a must until the number of virus cases is heavily reduced and can be contained, or a vaccine finally becomes available. Until then EVERYONE IS AT RISK FOR THE WORST THINGS THIS VIRUS CAN DO REGARDLESS OF AGE OR HEALTH STATUS! States that are planning or trying to reopen before they have reduced the virus to manageable levels are going to be KILLING PEOPLE and making this problem WORSE for the entire country!
