Post by the Scribe on Apr 20, 2020 12:39:05 GMT
I will say this again. Coronavirus in cats who catch and shed it will sometimes (in 20% of the cats) mutate into another disease, namely Feline Infectious Peritonitis. This happens fairly soon afterwards but is slow moving. It is typically fatal to these cats. I have seen this time and time again. So it doesn't surprise me there are some after effects in humans. Prevention is the BEST cure.
Evidently the same shadowy groups behind the Tea Party are also behind these END THE SHUTDOWN PROTESTS around the country that Trump himself and right wing media is pushing. Avoid CONSERVATIVES at ALL COSTS. They are NOT taking necessary precautions and are most likely carriers of coronavirus. ALL protesters should be forced to sign a "medical release from care" form so if they catch the virus they will not be admitted to a hospital, they will forfeit their place so those who took this pandemic seriously can get help.
Why are so many COVID-19 patients also seeing blood clots?
SASHA PEZENIK and DR. L. NEDDA DASTMALCHI
ABC NewsApril 20, 2020, 3:03 AM MST
www.yahoo.com/gma/why-many-covid-19-patients-seeing-blood-clots-174522796.html
As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages a world still grappling with vast uncertainty over the virus, a new and unnerving pattern has emerged in some patients.
abcnews.go.com/Health/Coronavirus
Though novel coronavirus symptoms thus far have presented chiefly within the respiratory system, the infection is swiftly showing to be an all-out, system-wide assault that reaches far past the lungs. Doctors in hot spots across the globe have begun to report an unexpected prevalence of blood clotting among COVID cases, in what could pose a perfect storm of potentially fatal risk factors.
abcnews.go.com/alerts/coronavirus
In New Orleans, a man in his 30s was admitted to the hospital a week into treatment for the flu, severely sick. Developing shortness of breath, chest pain and an abnormally rapid heart rate -- he was tested for coronavirus -- doctors realized those symptoms also are typical of a pulmonary embolism: a potentially deadly blood clot that can move from the legs to the lungs and damage the heart.
www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/states-grapple-questions-reopening-guidelines-works-70179193
The man's blood work already showed heart damage, though he had no known underlying medical conditions, no recent travel, no recent surgeries. His chest scans, shown first to ABC News, revealed a massive clot. Termed a "saddle embolus" because it hooks over branches of both pulmonary arteries, it was severely stressing the right side of the heart, unable to push blood against the clot already in its strained state.
"Thankfully, we were able to find this and treat this early, otherwise it probably would have killed him," Dr. Siyab Panhwar, a cardiovascular consult for the patient, told ABC News.
PHOTO: An echocardiogram (ultrasound) of the heart of a man in his 30s, tested positive for coronavirus, showing damage to the right side of the heart. (Dr. Siyab Panhwar)
The patient's system, riddled with inflammation -- increasingly a pattern among patients with COVID-19 -- in such a heightened state may have been doing more harm than good because inflammation -- a defensive mechanism in the body -- can increase clotting.
The body's response creates a domino effect that may cause further harm, doctors told ABC News. Patients' systems are strained by numerous factors triggered by the virus -- stressed lungs, severe inflammation -- that set in motion the clotting effect.
MORE:Why screening for fevers won't be enough to catch coronavirus cases abcnews.go.com/Health/screening-fevers-catch-coronavirus-cases/story?id=70199490&cid=clicksource_69335433_2_hero_headlines_headlines_hed
It's growing so common with severe COVID cases, doctors are recognizing it as a new pattern of clotting called COVID-19-associated coagulopathy, or CAC, which is notably associated with high inflammatory markers in the blood, like D-dimer and fibrinogen.
hematology.org/covid-19/covid-19-and-coagulopathy
"This virus is affecting the lungs, but it appears to be causing inflammation of the whole body," Dr. Viren Kaul, a pulmonary critical care specialist at Crouse Health and an assistant professor of medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University, told ABC News. With those patients at a higher risk of clotting, doctors must identify those individuals a quickly as possible.
In Spain, among the hardest-hit nations, clotting cases have become so prevalent in novel coronavirus patients that doctors have begun routinely treating individuals with therapeutic doses of anticoagulation medication.
www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/european-countries-plan-slowly-reopen-global-cases-2m-70158465
"In the beginning of the outbreak, we started only giving them medicine to prevent clots. We saw that it wasn't enough," Dr. Cristina Abad, an anesthesiologist at Hospital Clínicos San Carlos in Madrid, told ABC News. "They started having pulmonary embolisms, so we started [full] anticoagulation on everyone."
Nearly half of the COVID-19 deaths in Spain have been in Madrid.
PHOTO: An echocardiogram (ultrasound) of the heart of a man in his 30s, tested positive for coronavirus, showing damage to the right side of the heart. (Dr. Siyab Panhwar)
The exact cause of increased clotting in COVID patients remains unclear -- as novel as the virus itself. But Abad said she believes the increase in clotting is from the severe inflammation, fluid and stress to the respiratory system.
MORE: 'Massive blindspot': Missing data in COVID pandemic leaves US vulnerable abcnews.go.com/Health/massive-blindspot-missing-data-covid-pandemic-leaves-us/story?id=70094182&cid=clicksource_69335433_5_three_posts_card_hed
In the U.S., doctors on the front lines of the COVID battle have been crafting new protocols as the world scrambles to understand more about this virus.
abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-long-term-effects/story?id=69811566
Dr. Salim Rezaie, an emergency medicine physician at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio focused on understanding COVID-19 and its association with clotting, said he's been tracking telltale signs of clotting through their byproduct, D-dimer proteins, which break off in the body and spread through the bloodstream. Those help determine anticoagulant dosages.
rebelem.com/covid-19-thrombosis-and-hemoglobin/
"The crux of all this is, what does that mean for the body's larger system?" Rezaie said. "The evidence is really new, and it's not robust. People are just trying to do the right thing, give the most benefit, but not cause more harm."
Panhwar shared a story of a patient who was nearly discharged before additional symptoms were discovered, adding: "We're seeing really swift decompensation for patients with severe symptoms."
"About 40 years old, she was going to self-quarantine, she was walking out the door, and she went into sudden respiratory arrest," Panhwar continued. "She was intubated and coded in a matter of 30 minutes. So when that happens, our suspicion of pulmonary embolism is very, very high. But without screening for it, we can't know for sure."
abcnews.go.com/Health/screening-fevers-catch-coronavirus-cases/story?id=70199490&cid=clicksource_69335433_2_hero_headlines_headlines_hed
"It can happen so quickly. It can be very traumatic. This disease is unlike anything we've seen," he added.
Some COVID-19 patients have been crashing, hard and fast, from sudden events -- pulmonary embolisms, cardiac arrests, respiratory failures -- leading some doctors to wonder whether such cases were spurred by a clot for which they didn't know to look.
PHOTO: A CT Scan of a heart from a man in his 30s, tested positive for coronavirus, with a massive saddle embolus in the pulmonary arteries. (Dr. Siyab Panhwar)
But symptoms of a worsening COVID infection mirror those of a severe clot in the lung, which, doctors have said, further blurs the lines of a diagnosis already difficult to clarify. More observation and research will be required.
"Separating the two entities, talking about clots in the lungs and worsening COVID infection, can be difficult, which is the challenging thing," Kaul said.
But even screening for clots amid the current threat of infection presents additional difficulties: Every surface of full-body CT scan machines must be wiped down, thoroughly, which requires additional resources and takes more than an hour. It's yet another clog in the system.
"It's really like the Wild West," Panhwar said. "We're in uncharted territory."
Lily Nedda Dastmalchi, D.O., M.A., an internal medicine resident physician at The George Washington University, is a contributor to the ABC News Medical Unit. Sasha Pezenik is a reporter/producer with ABC News.
Why are so many COVID-19 patients also seeing blood clots? originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
Evidently the same shadowy groups behind the Tea Party are also behind these END THE SHUTDOWN PROTESTS around the country that Trump himself and right wing media is pushing. Avoid CONSERVATIVES at ALL COSTS. They are NOT taking necessary precautions and are most likely carriers of coronavirus. ALL protesters should be forced to sign a "medical release from care" form so if they catch the virus they will not be admitted to a hospital, they will forfeit their place so those who took this pandemic seriously can get help.
Why are so many COVID-19 patients also seeing blood clots?
SASHA PEZENIK and DR. L. NEDDA DASTMALCHI
ABC NewsApril 20, 2020, 3:03 AM MST
www.yahoo.com/gma/why-many-covid-19-patients-seeing-blood-clots-174522796.html
As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages a world still grappling with vast uncertainty over the virus, a new and unnerving pattern has emerged in some patients.
abcnews.go.com/Health/Coronavirus
Though novel coronavirus symptoms thus far have presented chiefly within the respiratory system, the infection is swiftly showing to be an all-out, system-wide assault that reaches far past the lungs. Doctors in hot spots across the globe have begun to report an unexpected prevalence of blood clotting among COVID cases, in what could pose a perfect storm of potentially fatal risk factors.
abcnews.go.com/alerts/coronavirus
In New Orleans, a man in his 30s was admitted to the hospital a week into treatment for the flu, severely sick. Developing shortness of breath, chest pain and an abnormally rapid heart rate -- he was tested for coronavirus -- doctors realized those symptoms also are typical of a pulmonary embolism: a potentially deadly blood clot that can move from the legs to the lungs and damage the heart.
www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/states-grapple-questions-reopening-guidelines-works-70179193
The man's blood work already showed heart damage, though he had no known underlying medical conditions, no recent travel, no recent surgeries. His chest scans, shown first to ABC News, revealed a massive clot. Termed a "saddle embolus" because it hooks over branches of both pulmonary arteries, it was severely stressing the right side of the heart, unable to push blood against the clot already in its strained state.
"Thankfully, we were able to find this and treat this early, otherwise it probably would have killed him," Dr. Siyab Panhwar, a cardiovascular consult for the patient, told ABC News.
PHOTO: An echocardiogram (ultrasound) of the heart of a man in his 30s, tested positive for coronavirus, showing damage to the right side of the heart. (Dr. Siyab Panhwar)
The patient's system, riddled with inflammation -- increasingly a pattern among patients with COVID-19 -- in such a heightened state may have been doing more harm than good because inflammation -- a defensive mechanism in the body -- can increase clotting.
The body's response creates a domino effect that may cause further harm, doctors told ABC News. Patients' systems are strained by numerous factors triggered by the virus -- stressed lungs, severe inflammation -- that set in motion the clotting effect.
MORE:Why screening for fevers won't be enough to catch coronavirus cases abcnews.go.com/Health/screening-fevers-catch-coronavirus-cases/story?id=70199490&cid=clicksource_69335433_2_hero_headlines_headlines_hed
It's growing so common with severe COVID cases, doctors are recognizing it as a new pattern of clotting called COVID-19-associated coagulopathy, or CAC, which is notably associated with high inflammatory markers in the blood, like D-dimer and fibrinogen.
hematology.org/covid-19/covid-19-and-coagulopathy
"This virus is affecting the lungs, but it appears to be causing inflammation of the whole body," Dr. Viren Kaul, a pulmonary critical care specialist at Crouse Health and an assistant professor of medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University, told ABC News. With those patients at a higher risk of clotting, doctors must identify those individuals a quickly as possible.
In Spain, among the hardest-hit nations, clotting cases have become so prevalent in novel coronavirus patients that doctors have begun routinely treating individuals with therapeutic doses of anticoagulation medication.
www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/european-countries-plan-slowly-reopen-global-cases-2m-70158465
"In the beginning of the outbreak, we started only giving them medicine to prevent clots. We saw that it wasn't enough," Dr. Cristina Abad, an anesthesiologist at Hospital Clínicos San Carlos in Madrid, told ABC News. "They started having pulmonary embolisms, so we started [full] anticoagulation on everyone."
Nearly half of the COVID-19 deaths in Spain have been in Madrid.
PHOTO: An echocardiogram (ultrasound) of the heart of a man in his 30s, tested positive for coronavirus, showing damage to the right side of the heart. (Dr. Siyab Panhwar)
The exact cause of increased clotting in COVID patients remains unclear -- as novel as the virus itself. But Abad said she believes the increase in clotting is from the severe inflammation, fluid and stress to the respiratory system.
MORE: 'Massive blindspot': Missing data in COVID pandemic leaves US vulnerable abcnews.go.com/Health/massive-blindspot-missing-data-covid-pandemic-leaves-us/story?id=70094182&cid=clicksource_69335433_5_three_posts_card_hed
In the U.S., doctors on the front lines of the COVID battle have been crafting new protocols as the world scrambles to understand more about this virus.
abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-long-term-effects/story?id=69811566
Dr. Salim Rezaie, an emergency medicine physician at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio focused on understanding COVID-19 and its association with clotting, said he's been tracking telltale signs of clotting through their byproduct, D-dimer proteins, which break off in the body and spread through the bloodstream. Those help determine anticoagulant dosages.
rebelem.com/covid-19-thrombosis-and-hemoglobin/
"The crux of all this is, what does that mean for the body's larger system?" Rezaie said. "The evidence is really new, and it's not robust. People are just trying to do the right thing, give the most benefit, but not cause more harm."
Panhwar shared a story of a patient who was nearly discharged before additional symptoms were discovered, adding: "We're seeing really swift decompensation for patients with severe symptoms."
"About 40 years old, she was going to self-quarantine, she was walking out the door, and she went into sudden respiratory arrest," Panhwar continued. "She was intubated and coded in a matter of 30 minutes. So when that happens, our suspicion of pulmonary embolism is very, very high. But without screening for it, we can't know for sure."
abcnews.go.com/Health/screening-fevers-catch-coronavirus-cases/story?id=70199490&cid=clicksource_69335433_2_hero_headlines_headlines_hed
"It can happen so quickly. It can be very traumatic. This disease is unlike anything we've seen," he added.
Some COVID-19 patients have been crashing, hard and fast, from sudden events -- pulmonary embolisms, cardiac arrests, respiratory failures -- leading some doctors to wonder whether such cases were spurred by a clot for which they didn't know to look.
PHOTO: A CT Scan of a heart from a man in his 30s, tested positive for coronavirus, with a massive saddle embolus in the pulmonary arteries. (Dr. Siyab Panhwar)
But symptoms of a worsening COVID infection mirror those of a severe clot in the lung, which, doctors have said, further blurs the lines of a diagnosis already difficult to clarify. More observation and research will be required.
"Separating the two entities, talking about clots in the lungs and worsening COVID infection, can be difficult, which is the challenging thing," Kaul said.
But even screening for clots amid the current threat of infection presents additional difficulties: Every surface of full-body CT scan machines must be wiped down, thoroughly, which requires additional resources and takes more than an hour. It's yet another clog in the system.
"It's really like the Wild West," Panhwar said. "We're in uncharted territory."
Lily Nedda Dastmalchi, D.O., M.A., an internal medicine resident physician at The George Washington University, is a contributor to the ABC News Medical Unit. Sasha Pezenik is a reporter/producer with ABC News.
Why are so many COVID-19 patients also seeing blood clots? originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
Marthayesterday
This virus is very strange. It can be contagious when there are no symptoms, can take an extremely long time to recover from, can cause a relapse with fever returning, can show it's still active after a patient feels well, can cause lung damage,fatigue and inflammation that seem to be permanent. It's very scary to think about what all it can do to those who are healthy, let alone those who are older or have heath problems.
This virus is very strange. It can be contagious when there are no symptoms, can take an extremely long time to recover from, can cause a relapse with fever returning, can show it's still active after a patient feels well, can cause lung damage,fatigue and inflammation that seem to be permanent. It's very scary to think about what all it can do to those who are healthy, let alone those who are older or have heath problems.
underwatervulcan3 days ago
A few weeks after I had Covid I had spots show up on my leg like spider bites or chicken pox/shingles. I went to doctor and hd blood work done. It showed I had cryoglobulins in my blood and that my leg was showing vasculitis. I also had shortness of breath and rapid heart beat from just standing up and walking 30 ft. It is clear now and blood tested free of the cryoglobulin proteins in a test last week but my breathing was limited in a significant way for four weeks after and it took 8 weeks to feel normal. With the testing the Covid Shutdown delayed the dermatologist appointment, and my doctor is waiting until June to order an antibody test as they are frontline workers right now. I am curious but cryoglobulins only show up for things like lymphoma, lupus and viruses like hepatitis and wilkes-barr(mono). The blood specialist said my blood work would not look like mine did or does if I had any serious disease and I would have shown symptoms if I had Hepatitis or Mono. So we wait because there is nothing to treat at this point except curiosity. I wonder if the vasculitis started because I stopped moving after it was hard to breathe or if I was reinfected and the symptoms changed. Who knows.
A few weeks after I had Covid I had spots show up on my leg like spider bites or chicken pox/shingles. I went to doctor and hd blood work done. It showed I had cryoglobulins in my blood and that my leg was showing vasculitis. I also had shortness of breath and rapid heart beat from just standing up and walking 30 ft. It is clear now and blood tested free of the cryoglobulin proteins in a test last week but my breathing was limited in a significant way for four weeks after and it took 8 weeks to feel normal. With the testing the Covid Shutdown delayed the dermatologist appointment, and my doctor is waiting until June to order an antibody test as they are frontline workers right now. I am curious but cryoglobulins only show up for things like lymphoma, lupus and viruses like hepatitis and wilkes-barr(mono). The blood specialist said my blood work would not look like mine did or does if I had any serious disease and I would have shown symptoms if I had Hepatitis or Mono. So we wait because there is nothing to treat at this point except curiosity. I wonder if the vasculitis started because I stopped moving after it was hard to breathe or if I was reinfected and the symptoms changed. Who knows.
donna3 days ago
Read an article about a week ago where a doctor saw blood clots in a covid-19 patient. He used a combination of blood thinners and a clot buster drip. Those patients recovered quickly, even though they were critical.
Read an article about a week ago where a doctor saw blood clots in a covid-19 patient. He used a combination of blood thinners and a clot buster drip. Those patients recovered quickly, even though they were critical.
Faith3 days ago
It seems to be resulting in generalized vasculitis, which is inflammation of blood vessels that results in clotting. It can happen anywhere in the body, even in the skin. Perhaps this is the reason for the “chicken pox like” skin lesions that have been noted in some patients (noted in another article). A simple biopsy would clarify whether that is the case.
It seems to be resulting in generalized vasculitis, which is inflammation of blood vessels that results in clotting. It can happen anywhere in the body, even in the skin. Perhaps this is the reason for the “chicken pox like” skin lesions that have been noted in some patients (noted in another article). A simple biopsy would clarify whether that is the case.
Jerold3 days ago
I have noticed that one of the things you don't want to do if infected by this virus is to lay down and quit moving around. I believe they have started treating this differently by changing patients position in bed often and keeping them off ventilators. One doctor said he never before had to tell a patient to get off their phone so he could intubate them and that made him rethink the way he was treating patients. I would also bet that most of the rest homes deaths were people already bedridden or in very poor health.
I have noticed that one of the things you don't want to do if infected by this virus is to lay down and quit moving around. I believe they have started treating this differently by changing patients position in bed often and keeping them off ventilators. One doctor said he never before had to tell a patient to get off their phone so he could intubate them and that made him rethink the way he was treating patients. I would also bet that most of the rest homes deaths were people already bedridden or in very poor health.
Lyesterday
Emf's (electromagnetic fields) are shown to cause blood clots, as does hypoxia (low oxygen levels) which is also a symptom of radiation poisoning. With the new frequency of cell towers going up, the wave length binds the oxygen, making it unable to be transported into the cells. www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/does-short-term-exposure-to-cell-phone-radiation-affect-the-blood/ www.medicinenet.com/polycythemia_high_red_blood_cell_count/article.htm
Blood is the essence of life. It is useful to examine the blood under a microscope to look for any changes in reaction to a stressor. In this …
Blood is the essence of life. It is useful to examine the blood under a microscope to look for any changes in reaction to a stressor. In this …
Blood is the essence of life. It is useful to examine the blood under a microscope to look for any changes in reaction to a stressor. In this …
www.westonaprice.org
Emf's (electromagnetic fields) are shown to cause blood clots, as does hypoxia (low oxygen levels) which is also a symptom of radiation poisoning. With the new frequency of cell towers going up, the wave length binds the oxygen, making it unable to be transported into the cells. www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/does-short-term-exposure-to-cell-phone-radiation-affect-the-blood/ www.medicinenet.com/polycythemia_high_red_blood_cell_count/article.htm
Blood is the essence of life. It is useful to examine the blood under a microscope to look for any changes in reaction to a stressor. In this …
Blood is the essence of life. It is useful to examine the blood under a microscope to look for any changes in reaction to a stressor. In this …
Blood is the essence of life. It is useful to examine the blood under a microscope to look for any changes in reaction to a stressor. In this …
www.westonaprice.org