Open Accessd-dimer and Death in Critically Ill Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019
Author(s) -
Samuel A.P. Short,
Shruti Gupta,
Samantha K. Brenner,
Salim S. Hayek,
Anand Srivastava,
Shahzad Shaefi,
Harkarandeep Singh,
Benjamin G. Wu,
Aranya Bagchi,
Hanny AlSamkari,
Rajany Dy,
Katherine Wilkinson,
Neil A. Zakai,
David E. Leaf
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.002
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1530-0293
pISSN - 0090-3493
DOI - 10.1097/ccm.0000000000004917
Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , d dimer , odds ratio , severity of illness , confounding
Hypercoagulability may be a key mechanism for acute organ injury and death in patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019, but the relationship between elevated plasma levels of d-dimer, a biomarker of coagulation activation, and mortality has not been rigorously studied. We examined the independent association between d-dimer and death in critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019.