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Not a doctor, so talk to your hematologist! Ads bind to blood factors (Ad5s to FX, HAdVs to FIX, etc), which facilitates organ uptake and interferes with the co
by HillRat 6y ago
Not a doctor, so talk to your hematologist! Ads bind to blood factors (Ad5s to FX, HAdVs to FIX, etc), which facilitates organ uptake and interferes with the coagulation cascade and triggers complement activation. Thrombotic thrombocytopenia is a known complication from gene therapy studies, so it’s not surprising, but concerning, that rare but serious coagulatory disorders are appearing in the widespread use of a zoonotic adenovirus. I’m certain quite a few other folks on here are better-informed than me, so hopefully we’ll get some more discussions going on this topic.
- HillRat 6y agoI’ll also say that the most significant risk is probably mistreatment of clots, since most doctors probably wouldn’t go right to non-heparin/warfarin DTIs unless they had reason to suspect HIT or had gotten a CBC back.