Biomarkers of sepsis: time for a reappraisal

C Pierrakos, D Velissaris, M Bisdorff, JC Marshall… - Critical Care, 2020 - Springer
Introduction Sepsis biomarkers can have important diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic
functions. In a previous review, we identified 3370 references reporting on 178 different …

COVID–19-associated coagulopathy: An exploration of mechanisms

ME Colling, Y Kanthi - Vascular Medicine, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
An ongoing global pandemic of viral pneumonia (coronavirus disease [COVID-19]), due to
the virus SARS-CoV-2, has infected millions of people and remains a threat to many more …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 and haemostasis: a position paper from Italian Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (SISET)

M Marietta, W Ageno, A Artoni, E De Candia… - Blood …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The ongoing pandemic of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is severely challenging
healthcare systems all around the world, with the need to provide intensive care to a …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study

F Zhou, T Yu, R Du, G Fan, Y Liu, Z Liu, J Xiang… - The lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Since December, 2019, Wuhan, China, has experienced an outbreak
of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Mortality risk factors among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in a major referral center in Iran

NM Alamdari, S Afaghi, FS Rahimi, FE Tarki… - The Tohoku journal of …, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Abstract The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has killed many people
worldwide since December 2019, and Iran has been among the most affected countries. In …

Comorbidities, clinical signs and symptoms, laboratory findings, imaging features, treatment strategies, and outcomes in adult and pediatric patients with COVID-19: A …

CR Jutzeler, L Bourguignon, CV Weis, B Tong… - Travel medicine and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction Since December 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has
triggered a world-wide pandemic with an enormous medical and societal-economic toll …

The D‐dimer assay

ED Johnson, JC Schell… - American journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
D‐dimer is an indirect marker of fibrinolysis and fibrin turnover; this molecule exhibits unique
properties as a biological marker of hemostatic abnormalities as well as an indicator of …

Serum D-dimer test is promising for the diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection and timing of reimplantation

A Shahi, MM Kheir, M Tarabichi, HRS Hosseinzadeh… - JBJS, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background: Despite the availability of a battery of tests, the diagnosis of periprosthetic joint
infection (PJI) continues to be challenging. Serum D-dimer assessment is a widely available …

Elevated D-dimer levels are associated with increased risk of mortality in coronavirus disease 2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Shah, K Shah, SB Patel, FS Patel, M Osman… - Cardiology in …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The 2019 novel coronavirus, declared a pandemic, has infected 2.6 million people as of
April 27, 2020, and has resulted in the death of 181,938 people. d-dimer is an important …

[HTML][HTML] Von Willebrand factor (vWF): marker of endothelial damage and thrombotic risk in COVID-19?

EE Ladikou, H Sivaloganathan, KM Milne, WE Arter… - Clinical medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Background COVID-19 infection is characterised, among other features, by a prothrombotic
state with high rate of venous thromboembolism (VTE), D-dimer, and fibrinogen levels …