Comments on: The ‘Silent Hypoxia’ . . . https://habitablezone.com/2020/04/24/the-silent-hypoxia/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2020/04/24/the-silent-hypoxia/#comment-44414 DanS Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:02:21 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=81181#comment-44414 <blockquote><center><a href="https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-blood-clots.html" rel="nofollow"><strong><font color="#66FFCC">Mysterious Blood Clots in COVID-19 Patients have Doctors Alarmed</font></strong></a> <font size="2" color="white">Some hospitals are putting all COVID-19 patients on low doses of blood thinners.</font></center> <font size="1" color="white">By Rachael Rettner | Senior Writer</font> <b>LIVE SCIENCE - April 23, 2020 |</b> As doctors learn more about what makes COVID-19 so severe for some patients, they have discovered a mysterious and potentially lethal complication of the disease: blood clots. Many doctors have reported seeing an alarming number of COVID-19 patients with blood clots — gel-like clumps in the blood that can cause serious problems, such as heart attack and stroke, according to news reports. <center><img src="http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/v2XfyYVAgtWBSa7Z5eKsge-1024-80.jpg" height="300"></center> <font size="1" color="white">(Image: © Shutterstock)</font> "The number of clotting problems I'm seeing in the ICU [intensive care unit], all related to COVID-19, is unprecedented," Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, a hematologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, told CNN. Some doctors started to notice that their COVID-19 patients were developing clots in their legs, even while they were on blood thinners, according to The Washington Post. Others reported trouble with dialysis machines for COVID-19 patients, because clots in the patients' blood would clog the machine tubing, according to CNN. </blockquote>

Mysterious Blood Clots in COVID-19 Patients have Doctors Alarmed
Some hospitals are putting all COVID-19 patients on low doses of blood thinners.

By Rachael Rettner | Senior Writer

LIVE SCIENCE – April 23, 2020 | As doctors learn more about what makes COVID-19 so severe for some patients, they have discovered a mysterious and potentially lethal complication of the disease: blood clots.

Many doctors have reported seeing an alarming number of COVID-19 patients with blood clots — gel-like clumps in the blood that can cause serious problems, such as heart attack and stroke, according to news reports.


(Image: © Shutterstock)

“The number of clotting problems I’m seeing in the ICU [intensive care unit], all related to COVID-19, is unprecedented,” Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, a hematologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, told CNN.

Some doctors started to notice that their COVID-19 patients were developing clots in their legs, even while they were on blood thinners, according to The Washington Post. Others reported trouble with dialysis machines for COVID-19 patients, because clots in the patients’ blood would clog the machine tubing, according to CNN.

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