A new post on GHIC from Dr Arvind Kaul regarding Covid 19

[MaryF]

ghicworld.org/covid-19/

There will be plenty more to come, and I will pop them on here when they are ready

MaryF

[HollyHeski Administrator]

Thanks Mary

[Ozchick]

Thanks Mary, quite informative.

[lupus-support1 Administrator]

Thanks. Reposted to LUpus Patients Understanding & Support (LUPUS).

[MaryF Administrator in reply to lupus-support1]

Thank you very much Ros, and I always find the posts from your forum really useful. MaryF

[TwoH]

Thank you thank you!

[Lure2]

Thank you Mary so much!

Take good care over there all of you!

Kerstin

[HollyHeski Administrator in reply to Lure2]

Nice to hear from you Kirsten, hope your well and keeping safe? x

[MaryF Administrator in reply to Lure2]

Yourself, also, miss you! MaryF x

[Lure2]

I am now 76 but ok. Was at the Karolinska hospital yesterday for the yearly Echocardiography with doppler. I can take the stairs and also go for a daily walk for 30-45 minutes so I am sure I am fit and quite ok. Two leaky heartvalves and Pulmonell hypertension ( still steady though I hope) as I keep my bloodpressure and INR in place which I think is very important.

I miss you all!

[MaryF Administrator in reply to Lure2]

Yes, you are an excellent role model, Mary F xx

[Star13]

Actually Prof Hunt seems to disagree with what he says.

He's says:

What causes these blood clots? Severe covid-19 infection is associated with very high levels of inflammatory cytokines, leading to higher levels of fibrinogen, a pro-sticky blood component. This leads to a higher risk for thrombosis with the pattern of thrombosis similar to a condition called Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC). DIC can occur in many other infections but also with cancer, childbirth and surgery.

She says:

Beverley Hunt

@bhwords

T & H learning over the pandemic:

- COVID-19 coagulopathy is not DIC but part of a profound inflammatory response

- what is seen on CTPA is not always PE but can be in situ thrombosis - immunothrombosis

- local fibrinolysis in healing lung injury spills D-dimers into plasma.

Confusing??

[KellyInTexas Administrator in reply to Star13]

It is a bit confusing!

The doctors themselves caution that they themselves fully expect to evolve their knowledge as new information unfolds .

Prof Hunt said in a webinar, “ what I say today may not be what I say three months from now.”

And I’m now thinking in response to the journal out of Jerusalem that Ros shared earlier this week... who would have ever though a gout medication would potentially hold such promise?

It reminds me once again how in absolute awe I am of the diversity of human talent. I am humbled ...

[MaryF Administrator in reply to KellyInTexas]

Well said. MaryF

[MaryF Administrator]

I think our main experts will continue to thrash this one out as new learning material come available, personally I try and read what all the experts have to say, keep well. MaryF