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Filter by:The respiratory distress that goes with COVID-19 infection has been related to a procoagulant state, with thrombosis at both venous and arterial levels, that determines hypoxia and tissue dysfunction at several organs. The main sign of this thrombotic activity seems to be the D-Dimers, that have been proposed to identify patients with poor prognosis at an early stage. Knowledge on how to prevent or even treat this procoagulant state is scarce. COVID-19 patients may be out of general thromboprophylaxis recommendations, and recent studies suggest a better prognosis in severe COVID-19 patients receiving anticoagulant therapy with low molecular weight heparin (LMWH). However, the LMWH efficacy and safety, mainly in patients admitted to an Intensive Care Unit, remains to be validated.
Despite its growing use across the world, and similar efficacy, filter-based therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) continues to be used less often that centrifuge-based TPE. One of the reasons is that the patient and circuit complications of centrifuge-based TPE are familiar to the clinical team. There is little data on the patient and circuit complications of filter-based TPE (using the Prismaflex). Furthermore, there is a reluctance to use filter-based TPE because historically, most TPE programs have used citrate-regional anticoagulation, and there is a large gap in knowledge in the use of citrate regional anti-coagulation when using filter-based TPE.
This trial is conducted to assess the performance and handling of the in vitro diagnostic (IVD) device for oral direct factor Xa and thrombin inhibitors from urine samples of patients on treatment with direct oral anticoagulants Apixaban, Edoxaban, Rivaroxaban, and Dabigatran (DOAC) in an actual point-of-care (POCT) setting in comparison to results obtained by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) from urine samples. This trial is conducted to assess the performance and handling of the IVD for oral direct factor Xa and thrombin inhibitors from urine samples of patients on treatment with DOACs in an actual point-of-care setting in comparison to results obtained by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) from urine samples. "publication Thromb Haemost. 2019 Nov 8. doi: 10.1055/s-0039-1700545. [Epub ahead of print]"
This study evaluates two different methods for monitoring a patient's anti-clotting [heparin] therapy after they receive a heart pump implant [left ventricular assist device -LVAD]. One method tests for how long it takes the patient's blood to clot and uses that to determine if they are on the right dose of heparin. The other method uses a more direct measure of how much heparin is in the blood. The hypothesis is that the method that more directly measures how much heparin is in the patient's blood will provide better medical results for the patient's care after they have the heart pump implant. To that end, the investigators are conducting this feasibility trial to establish the logistics associated with the implementation of these heparin monitoring approaches.