Doctors in US hospitals are reporting a pattern of patients with coronavirus dying of blood clots despite being put on blood thinners.
Dr. Craig Coppersmith told The Hour that 20 to 40 percent of coronavirus patients at Emory University in Georgia have developed blood clots.
This comes amid reports that the deadly virus is affecting not only the respiratory system but also the heart, kidneys, liver, intestines, and the brain.
A heart surgeon from Brooklyn told Daily Mail that clots are possibly responsible for a ‘large amount’ of COVID-19 deaths their hospital is experiencing and added they may also be responsible for coronavirus patients passing away after being discharged from hospitals and apparent recovery.
Dr. Paul Saunders of Maimonides Medical Center told Daily Mail: “One of the things that is being learned about COVID is how much it produces coagulation problems – i.e. thrombosis (blood clots) found in both large vessels as well as the microvasculature.
“That’s been found in multiple sites in the body – for example, blood clots in the legs small clots all over the the lungs, as well as large pulmonary emboli.”
Dr. Robert Bonow, a professor of cardiology, also told Daily Mail: “With COVID specifically, what you see that you don’t with the flu, is because under a microscope, coronavirus has all these spikes coming out of it, and those spikes are little proteins that are looking for receptors on the cells that they attach onto.
“It’s specifically looking for receptors in the lungs, but those same receptors sit on blood vessels, so it can attach on the lungs but also on blood vessels.”
After docking onto blood cells, the viral particles can trigger damage not only to these but also to heart muscle, said Dr. Bonow. ‘Hypercoagual states’ can be triggered, causing blood clots that result in heart attacks.
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