Clinical Issue: Clinically, COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is increasingly seen as a systemic disease associated with multiorgan involvement through a hypercoagulatory condition in the sense of vasculopathy.
Standard Treatment: Treatment with antiplatelet drugs or heparins appears to be indicated. The current evidence, at least for acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), is lacking.
Diagnostic Work-up: Corresponding to the significant proportion of primarily microstructural vascular changes, the radiological diagnosis showed not only macrovascular pathologies, but also diffuse perfusion disorders.
Performance: Regional hypoperfusion in the lungs can be detected with and without pulmonary arterial embolism. Similar findings can be found in almost all organ systems.
Practical Recommendations: A therapeutic intervention using low molecular weight heparins in hospitalized patients in situation-adapted dosage is indicated and is discussed in detail. In the detection of micro- and macrovascular thrombosis in the context of COVID-19, extended radiological diagnostics play a central role and are the basis of adapted therapy and secondary prevention.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00117-021-00901-8 | DOI Listing |
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