Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-26 @ 11:09 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-26 @ 11:09 AM
NCT ID:
NCT04359212
Brief Summary:
The aim of this study is to verify if patients admitted to hospital in a medical division and in the intensive care unit for a COVID-19 infection are at higher risk of developing a VTE complication and if they actually present an increased hypercoagulable state.
Detailed Description:
Between December 2019 and January 2020, a new type of coronavirus, named as "coronavirus disease 2019 - COVID-19" by the World Health Organization, has widely spread throughout the world, becoming a global health threat. The new COVID-19 is similar to other two types of coronavirus that in the past two decades have emerged as cause of severe human disease: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoV (SARS-CoV) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome CoV (MERS-CoV). Severe respiratory disease or respiratory failure are the principal symptoms of critical patients, needing a management in ICU with mechanical ventilation.18 Data coming from laboratory results show a leucopenia mainly represented by a lymphopenia, that is a cardinal feature of COVID-19. Moreover, the concentration of several serum pro-thrombotic cytokines, such as interleukins (mainly IL-6, increased in 52% of patients), TNF-α, D-Dimer are reported to be significantly higher in COVID-19 patients, and significantly higher in ICU-patients than in non-ICU patients, suggesting an increased hypercoagulable state that, joined to the other main risk factors (immobilization, ICU admission, mechanical ventilation, infective disease), place these patients to a potential greater risk of developing VTE complications.
Study:
NCT04359212
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT04359212