Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients and Venous Thromboembolism: A Perfect Storm

Circulation. 2020 Jul 14;142(2):129-132. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.048020. Epub 2020 Jul 13.

Authors

Alex C Spyropoulos^#¹, Jeffrey I Weitz^#²

Affiliations

¹ The Institute for Health Innovations and Outcome Research, The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, and Department of Medicine, Anticoagulation and Clinical Thrombosis Services, Northwell Health at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY (A.C.P.).
² McMaster University and the Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute, Hamilton, ON, Canada (J.L.W.).

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 32658609
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.048020

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Editorials; inflammation; severe acute respiratory syndrome; venous thromboembolism.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
China
Coronavirus Infections*
Humans
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral*
Prevalence
Risk Factors
SARS-CoV-2
Venous Thromboembolism*
Venous Thrombosis*