Thromboelastography Parameters do not Discriminate for Thrombotic Events in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19

BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with a prothrombotic state; leading to multiple sequelae. We sought to detect whether thromboelastography (TEG) parameters would be able to detect thromboembolic events in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

METHODS: We performed a retrospective multicenter case-control study of the Collaborative Research to Understand the Sequelae of Harm in COVID (CRUSH COVID) registry of 8 tertiary care level hospitals in the United States (US). This registry contains adult patients with COVID-19 hospitalized between March 2020 and September 2020.

RESULTS: A total of 277 hospitalized COVID-19 patients were analyzed to determine whether conventional coagulation TEG parameters were associated with venous thromboembolic (VTE) and thrombotic events during hospitalization. A clotting index (CI) >3 was present in 45.8% of the population, consistent with a hypercoagulable state. Eighty-three percent of the patients had clot lysis at 30 min (LY30)  =  0, consistent with fibrinolysis shutdown, with a median of 0.1%. We did not find TEG parameters (LY30 area under the receiver operating characteristic [ROC] curve [AUC]  =  0.55, 95% CI: 0.44-0.65, P value  =  .32; alpha angle [α] AUC  =  0.58, 95% CI: 0.47-0.69, P value  =  .17; K time AUC  =  0.58, 95% CI: 0.46-0.69, P value  =  .67; maximum amplitude (MA) AUC  =  0.54, 95% CI: 0.44-0.64, P value  =  .47; reaction time [R time] AUC  =  0.53, 95% CI: 0.42-0.65, P value  =  .70) to be a good discriminator for VTE. We also did not find TEG parameters (LY30 AUC  =  0.51, 95% CI: 0.42-0.60, P value  =  .84; R time AUC  =  0.57, 95%CI: 0.48-0.67, P value .07; α AUC  =  0.59, 95%CI: 0.51-0.68, P value  =  .02; K time AUC  =  0.62, 95% CI: 0.53-0.70, P value  =  .07; MA AUC  =  0.65, 95% CI: 0.57-0.74, P value < .01) to be a good discriminator for thrombotic events.

CONCLUSIONS: In this retrospective multicenter cohort study, TEG in COVID-19 hospitalized patients may indicate a hypercoagulable state, however, its use in detecting VTE or thrombotic events is limited in this population.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:38

Enthalten in:

Journal of intensive care medicine - 38(2023), 5 vom: 10. Mai, Seite 449-456

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kartiko, Susan [VerfasserIn]
Koizumi, Naoru [VerfasserIn]
Yamane, David [VerfasserIn]
Sarani, Babak [VerfasserIn]
Siddique, Abu B [VerfasserIn]
Levine, Andrea R [VerfasserIn]
Jackson, Amanda M [VerfasserIn]
Wieruszewski, Patrick M [VerfasserIn]
Smischney, Nathan J [VerfasserIn]
Khanna, Ashish K [VerfasserIn]
Chow, Jonathan H [VerfasserIn]
CRUSH COVID Investigators [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Fibrinolysis shutdown
Hypercoagulable state
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
TEG
VTE

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Date Completed 04.04.2023

Date Revised 04.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/08850666221142265

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM349609624