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See D-dimer concentration in surviving and non-surviving patients: https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachment/7eca3d03-0704-49fe-a67d-54540c
by stared 6y ago
See D-dimer concentration in surviving and non-surviving patients: https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachment/7eca3d03-0704-49fe-a67d-54540c15feee/gr2.jpg https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachme...
It sky-rockets in non-surviving patients. For the context, D-dimer is a fibrin degradation product, a small protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot is degraded by fibrinolysis.
(Fig. 2 Temporal changes in laboratory markers from illness onset in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 from "Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study"
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30566-3/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...)