Blood-thinning drugs could help save some patients who are severely affected by coronavirus, a new study finds. 29% of patients on ventilators who were given blood thinners died, compared to 63% when not given those drugs, according to the researchers.
Blood thinning drugs could help save some patients who are the most severely affected by the new coronavirus, doctors reported Wednesday.
The findings from a team at Mount Sinai Hospital could help with a troubling problem that has shocked and horrified doctors treating coronavirus patients around the world -- blood clots throughout the body that complicate an already hard-to-treat disease.The team now says it is running experiments to see which anticoagulants may work best, and at which doses.
Fuster would also like to study whether blood thinners could help patients who are not sick enough to be hospitalized. Some hospitals have reported a troubling increase in strokes among people under age 50 who would normally not be at risk. Many of these patients have later been found to be infected with the coronavirus.It's not yet clear why the virus is causing blood to clot, but increased clotting can be a side effect of the severe inflammation caused by some viral infections.
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