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ArticleAmerican journal of blood research2021

Incidence of lupus anticoagulant in hospitalized covid-19 patients.

Tarek Owaidah, Mahasen Saleh, Amelita M Aguilos, Abdulllah Al Amri, Khalid Maghrabi, Mustafa Owaidah, Khawar Siddiqui, Khalid Alsaleh, Randa Alnounou

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Article in American journal of blood research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Tarek OwaidahDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre Riyadh 11211, KSA.
Mahasen SalehDepartment of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre Riyadh 11211, KSA.
Amelita M AguilosDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre Riyadh 11211, KSA.
Abdulllah Al AmriDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre Riyadh 11211, KSA.
Khalid MaghrabiDepartment of Critical Care, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre Riyadh 11211, KSA.
Mustafa OwaidahAlfaisal University Riyadh 11533, KSA.
Khawar SiddiquiDepartment of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre Riyadh 11211, KSA.
Khalid AlsalehDepartment of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University Riyadh 12372, KSA.
Randa AlnounouDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre Riyadh 11211, KSA.
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre · SAAlfaisal University · SAKing Saud University · SA

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Abstract

backgroundProcoagulant profile of 2019-nCoV/SARS-CoV-2 has been well documented over the last year. Perturbance in coagulating factors has also been reported in Covid-19 patients, including increased d-dimers and reports of lupus anticoagulant (LA).

methodsThe current study aimed to identify the incidence of positivity of lupus anticoagulant in Covid-19 patients and analyze the association between LA and D-dimer in predicting thrombosis and mortality in one-hundred and five hospitalized adult (age >14 years) patients and forty-three hospitalized pediatric (age <14 years) patients with a confirmed diagnosis of Covid-19 between June 2020 and September 2020.

resultsTwenty-one (20%) adult patients were tested positive for PTT LA, of which nine (8.6%) turned out to be confirmed positive for LA through StaClot and DRVVT Ratio tests. Six (14%) pediatric patients were positive for PTT LA, and only one (2.3%) had positive StaClot. Median D-dimer at admission was positively correlated with age and CRP among adult patients and was significantly higher in expired cases (P=0.001). No association between any of the coagulation tests and thrombosis or mortality was observed in the pediatric cohort.

conclusionWe report an increased incidence of LA in Covid-19 patients, yet we didn't find any association between thrombotic events or mortality, probably due to the small sample size.

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Covid-19D-dimerslupus anti-coagulantthrombosis

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