Pre-medication with oral anticoagulants is associated with better outcomes in a large multinational COVID-19 cohort with cardiovascular comorbidities

Aims Coagulopathy and venous thromboembolism are common findings in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and are associated with poor outcome. Timely initiation of anticoagulation after hospital admission was shown to be beneficial. In this study we aim to examine the association of pre-existing oral anticoagulation (OAC) with outcome among a cohort of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients. Methods and results We analysed the data from the large multi-national Lean European Open Survey on SARS-CoV-2 infected patients (LEOSS) from March to August 2020. Patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection were eligible for inclusion. We retrospectively analysed the association of pre-existing OAC with all-cause mortality. Secondary outcome measures included COVID-19-related mortality, recovery and composite endpoints combining death and/or thrombotic event and death and/or bleeding event. We restricted bleeding events to intracerebral bleeding in this analysis to ensure clinical relevance and to limit reporting errors. A total of 1 433 SARS-CoV-2 infected patients were analysed, while 334 patients (23.3%) had an existing premedication with OAC and 1 099 patients (79.7%) had no OAC. After risk adjustment for comorbidities, pre-existing OAC showed a protective influence on the endpoint death (OR 0.62, P = 0.013) as well as the secondary endpoints COVID-19-related death (OR 0.64, P = 0.023) and non-recovery (OR 0.66, P = 0.014). The combined endpoint death or thrombotic event tended to be less frequent in patients on OAC (OR 0.71, P = 0.056). Conclusions Pre-existing OAC is protective in COVID-19, irrespective of anticoagulation regime during hospital stay and independent of the stage and course of disease. Graphic abstract.

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:111

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Clinical research in cardiology - 111(2021), 3 vom: 21. Sept., Seite 322-332

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rieder, Marina [VerfasserIn]
Gauchel, Nadine [VerfasserIn]
Kaier, Klaus [VerfasserIn]
Jakob, Carolin [VerfasserIn]
Borgmann, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Classen, Annika Y. [VerfasserIn]
Schneider, Jochen [VerfasserIn]
Eberwein, Lukas [VerfasserIn]
Lablans, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Rüthrich, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Dolff, Sebastian [VerfasserIn]
Wille, Kai [VerfasserIn]
Haselberger, Martina [VerfasserIn]
Heuzeroth, Hanno [VerfasserIn]
Bode, Christoph [VerfasserIn]
von zur Mühlen, Constantin [VerfasserIn]
Rieg, Siegbert [VerfasserIn]
Duerschmied, Daniel [VerfasserIn]

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COVID-19
Oral anticoagulation
SARS-CoV-2
Thrombosis

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© The Author(s) 2021

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10.1007/s00392-021-01939-3

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OLC207812320X