QU Yali, LI Shuo, ZHANG Lingling, et al. Assessment of mortality risk in patients with severe or critical COVID-19 and venous thrombosis of lower extremity by D-dimer test. [J]. Journal of Clinical Ultrasound in Medicine 22(7):542-544(2020)
QU Yali, LI Shuo, ZHANG Lingling, et al. Assessment of mortality risk in patients with severe or critical COVID-19 and venous thrombosis of lower extremity by D-dimer test. [J]. Journal of Clinical Ultrasound in Medicine 22(7):542-544(2020) DOI: 10.16245/j.cnki.issn1008-6978.2020.07.026.
Assessment of mortality risk in patients with severe or critical COVID-19 and venous thrombosis of lower extremity by D-dimer test
Objective To perform bilateral lower extremity venous ultrasound in patients with severe or critical COVID-19
and to assess the mortality risk in patients with severe or critical COVID-19 and venous thrombosis of lower extremity by D-dimer test.Methods All 32 patients with severe or critical COVID-19 underwent bilateral lower extremity venous ultrasound and D-dimer test.The incidence of thrombus
D-dimer abnormality and the mortality risk were analyzed.The ROC curve was used to analyze the value of D-dimer in predicting the mortality risk in patients with severe or critical COVID-19 and venous thrombosis of lower extremity.Results Among the 32 patients
21 patients(65.6%) had acute venous thrombosis of the lower extremity
and 12 of them died(57.1%).Each patient underwent an average of 6D-dimer tests
28(87.5%) had elevated D-dimer levels after each D-dimer test.Taken D-dimer standard deviation of 11.310μg/ml as cut-off value
the sensitivity and specificity for predicting the mortality risk in patients with severe or critical COVID-19 and venous thrombosis of lower extremity were 91.7% and 66.7%
respectively.The area under the curve was 0.759(95%CI:0.524-0.995
P<0.05).Conclusion The D-dimer level elevated and fluctuated abnormally in patients with severe or critical COVID-19 and venous thrombosis of lower extremity is suggestive of mortality risk.More attention should be paid to the D-dimer level fluctuation during treatment
and bilateral lower extremity venous ultrasound examination should be performed early to identity patients with acute vein thrombosis.