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Liver injury linked to COVID-19–related coagulopathy
November 18, 2020
Cells that line the liver’s blood vessels produce high levels of factor VIII, a coagulation factor, when they are exposed to interleukin-6, an inflammatory molecule associated with COVID-19.
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One-third of critical illness survivors emerge from ICU with functional deterioration
November 18, 2020
One-third of patients who survived nonsurgical ICU admission had evidence of functional status decline.
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COVID-19 burdens follow patients after discharge
November 18, 2020
Postdischarge COVID-19 patients have high rates of long-term sequelae from sepsis and other severe respiratory viral illnesses.
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Factor XI inhibitor–based anticoagulation strategies gain ground
November 18, 2020
“When we compare the FXI inhibitors with existing anticoagulants, we don’t necessarily want to go up against the DOACs.”
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Metapneumovirus infections clinically indistinguishable from flu, RSV
November 17, 2020
Those at risk for severe or fatal metapneumovirus infections include frail elderly and patients with cardiovascular disease or compromised immunity.
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Cardiac arrest in COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Survival is possible’
November 17, 2020
Results of new studies of in- and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest underline that, despite lower survival rates during the pandemic, rates are “not zero,” and response is “not futile.”
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In those with obesity, will losing weight cut COVID-19 severity?
November 17, 2020
“To think excess weight may also be detrimental to acute effects of a novel virus running amok in the world has focused minds on obesity in a manner not seen before.”
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‘Tragic’ milestone: 1 million children with COVID-19
November 17, 2020
“We haven’t seen a virus flash through our communities in this way since before we had vaccines for measles and polio.”
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New-onset AFib common but unrecognized in the month after cardiac surgery
November 17, 2020
Results of SEARCH-AF trial show one in five cardiac surgery patients with no history of atrial fibrillation develop it within 30 days post discharge.
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Intravenous iron reduces HF readmissions: AFFIRM-AHF
November 14, 2020
The results are likely to change heart failure guidelines, which currently give a lukewarm recommendation for intravenous iron in the US, experts say.
