id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-297001-4g3wb8qi Tal, Shir Venous Thromboembolism Complicated with COVID-19: What Do We Know So Far? 2020-05-12 .txt text/plain 4626 236 47 Understanding the true impact of VTE on patients with COVID-19 will potentially improve our ability to reach a timely diagnosis and initiate proper treatment, mitigating the risk for this susceptible population during a complicated disease. However, many of the COVID-19 patients may present with high levels of D-dimer due to other causes -inflammation, disseminated intravascular coagulation, advanced age, or infection [23] suggesting the need for CTPA as an initial rule-out test as well. Finally, based on the correlation between high levels of D-dimer and severe COVID-19 disease [7, 37] as well as higher mortality rate [5, 38] , the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemosthasis (ISTH) and American Society of Hematology (ASH) guidelines [39] advises prophylactic LMWH in all hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the absence of any contraindications (active bleeding and platelet count less than 25 × 10 9 /L) [34, 40] . ./cache/cord-297001-4g3wb8qi.txt ./txt/cord-297001-4g3wb8qi.txt