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Ultrasound assisted, catheter-directed thrombolysis for acute intermediate-high risk pulmonary embolism: Focus on safety for oncological patients

Thrombosis Update Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.tru.2025.100206

Claudia Colombo , Lorenzo Tua , Nicolò Capsoni , Francesco Musca , Ilaria Emanuela Bossi , Filippo Russo , Mario Iannaccone , Andrea Discalzi , Luciana D'Angelo , Fabrizio Oliva , Marco Solcia , Alice Sacco

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Novel method for pulmonary embolism prognosis: Right to left ventricular volume ratio (RLVR) on pulmonary angiography (CTPA)

Thrombosis Update Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.tru.2025.100203

Aykut Yucal, Mustafa Burak Sayhan

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Multimorbidity and VTE

Thrombosis Update Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.tru.2025.100204

Lucy A. Norris (Editors in Chief), Emmanouil S. Papadakis (Editors in Chief)

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Thank you reviewers

Thrombosis Update Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.tru.2025.100205

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Discordance and bleeding in critically ill patients with COVID-19 receiving unfractionated heparin: A comparison between aPTT and anti-factor Xa activity level monitoring

Thrombosis Update Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.tru.2025.100202

Merijn C. Reuland , Thijs F. van Haaps , Pieter O.L.P. Broeren , Nick van Es , Claire E. Dijkslag-van der Laan , Alexander P.J. Vlaar , Michiel Coppens , Marcella C.A. Müller

{"title":"Discordance and bleeding in critically ill patients with COVID-19 receiving unfractionated heparin: A comparison between aPTT and anti-factor Xa activity level monitoring","authors":"Merijn C. Reuland , Thijs F. van Haaps , Pieter O.L.P. Broeren , Nick van Es , Claire E. Dijkslag-van der Laan , Alexander P.J. Vlaar , Michiel Coppens , Marcella C.A. Müller","doi":"10.1016/j.tru.2025.100202","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tru.2025.100202","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>COVID-19 is associated with hypercoagulability and an increased risk of thrombotic complications. In critically ill COVID-19 patients with thrombosis receiving unfractionated heparin (UFH), heparin resistance is frequently observed when the activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (aPTT) is used for monitoring. It is unclear whether UFH monitoring with anti-factor Xa (anti-Xa) is beneficial.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Retrospective cohort of critically ill COVID-19 patients treated with UFH in a single center tertiary Intensive Care Unit (ICU) before and after changing treatment protocol from a nurse-driven aPTT guided to an anti-Xa guided UFH dosing protocol. Measurements of aPTT and anti-Xa were simultaneously collected to evaluate discordance. Next, bleeding events while treated using the different treatments protocols was assessed, using the validated HEME scoring system.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>We included 149 patients with a median age of 63 years (interquartile range: 59, 70). Among the 715 samples with simultaneous measurements of aPTT and anti-Xa, discordance was observed in 57 % of samples. This was based on a low aPTT and normal anti-Xa activity in 40 %, and a normal aPTT and high anti-Xa activity in 9 %. In the aPTT period 43 of 83 patients developed any bleeding (52 %) compared to 23 of 68 patients (34 %) in the anti-Xa-guided period. In the 83 patients in the aPTT guided group, there were 43 bleeding events in 19 patients, compared to 23 bleeding events in 16 patients in the group guided by anti-Xa activity.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>In critically ill patients with COVID-19 receiving UFH, measurement of aPTT and anti-Xa activity are frequently discordant. Anti-Xa monitoring could potentially help in reducing the risk of bleeding.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34401,"journal":{"name":"Thrombosis Update","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Direct oral anticoagulants in patients with severe inherited thrombophilia: Real-world data from a tertiary care center

Thrombosis Update Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.tru.2025.100201

Omri Cohen , Merav Arnon , Irit Birger , Ophira Salomon , Shadan Lalezari , Orly Efros , Tami Barazani Brutman , Gili Kenet , Aaron Lubetsky , Sarina Levy-Mendelovich

{"title":"Direct oral anticoagulants in patients with severe inherited thrombophilia: Real-world data from a tertiary care center","authors":"Omri Cohen , Merav Arnon , Irit Birger , Ophira Salomon , Shadan Lalezari , Orly Efros , Tami Barazani Brutman , Gili Kenet , Aaron Lubetsky , Sarina Levy-Mendelovich","doi":"10.1016/j.tru.2025.100201","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tru.2025.100201","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Inherited thrombophilia (IT) predisposes individuals to venous thromboembolism (VTE) and increases the risk for first event VTE as well as for recurrent VTE. Outcomes in patients with IT treated with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) or vitamin K antagonists (VKAs), remain mostly underexplored.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>This retrospective study analyzed VTE patients with severe IT treated with DOACs at a large tertiary center. The MDClone platform was used for data extraction. Main outcomes were rates of VTE recurrence and major bleeding while on treatment with either DOAC or VKAs.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A total of 160 patients with IT were included. The median age was 44.3 and 56.9 % were female. Unprovoked VTE was the most common presentation, accounting for 45.0 % of cases, followed by events provoked by estrogen exposure (21.9 %) and other minor triggers (16.9 %). DOACs were exclusively administered in 82 patients (51.2 %), whereas 78 (48.7 %) received vitamin Kantagonists (VKAs), of whom 40 were later switched to DOACs.</div><div>Over a median of 5.2 years follow-up, VTE recurrence was observed in 12.5 %, and associated with higher Charlson comorbidity scores. Patients with unprovoked VTE exhibited the highest recurrence rates (20.8 %). In multivariate analysis recurrence rates were unaffected by gender, age at initial VTE event, comorbidity, thrombophilia subtype, or anticoagulant type. Incidence of major bleeding was low and was also similar across anticoagulant groups.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>DOACs and VKAs provide comparable outcomes in patients with IT in terms of VTE recurrence and bleeding risk.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34401,"journal":{"name":"Thrombosis Update","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143437304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Effect of Rosuvastatin on a murine model of deep vein thrombosis

Thrombosis Update Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.tru.2025.100200

Megan E. Barney , Shenghao Zhou , Anh Le-Cook , Naly Setthavongsack , Gabriel Nager , Jennifer M. Loftis , Randy L. Woltjer , Monica Hinds , Khanh P. Nguyen

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Reduced versus full apixaban lead-in dosing following parenteral treatment of acute venous thromboembolism

Thrombosis Update Pub Date : 2025-01-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.tru.2025.100199

Daniella Veloria , Benjamin Wang , Ran Ran , David Ha , Robert Diep , Calvin Diep

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Multimorbidity is associated with risk of incident venous thromboembolism – A nationwide proof-of-concept study

Thrombosis Update Pub Date : 2025-01-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.tru.2025.100198

Jonatan Ahrén , MirNabi Pirouzifard , Björn Holmquist , Jan Sundquist , Kristina Sundquist , Bengt Zöller

{"title":"Multimorbidity is associated with risk of incident venous thromboembolism – A nationwide proof-of-concept study","authors":"Jonatan Ahrén , MirNabi Pirouzifard , Björn Holmquist , Jan Sundquist , Kristina Sundquist , Bengt Zöller","doi":"10.1016/j.tru.2025.100198","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tru.2025.100198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Multimorbidity, i.e. two or more non-communicable diseases (NCDs), has been associated with venous thromboembolism (VTE), but whether multimorbidity is a predictor for incident VTE is unknown.</div></div><div><h3>Aims</h3><div>To examine the associations between multimorbidity and its severity with risk of incident VTE, and examine the association between nine different disease clusters and incident VTE.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A cohort study using landmark analysis of 2,694,442 individuals. Swedish national registers were linked and three landmarks (L1, L2, L3), i.e. baselines, were created with 14-, nine- and four-year follow-up times, respectively. Two or more NCDs defined multimorbidity and ≥5 marked multimorbidity severity. A hazard ratio (HR) with 95 % confidence interval (CI) for VTE was calculated and adjusted for sex, education and year of birth. Death and emigration were treated as competing events.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A total of 2,694,442 individuals were included. Multimorbidity was associated with incident VTE in all three analyzed landmarks: adjusted HR for VTE was 2.47 (95%CI 2.24–2.72) for L1, HR was 2.23 (95%CI 2.11–2.36) for L2, and HR was 2.16 (95%CI 2.03–2.29) for L3. HR increased with multimorbidity severity. For instance, HRs for multimorbidity with five or more NCDs was 4.29 (95%CI 2.53–7.28) in L1 analysis, 4.45 (95%CI 3.64–5.45) in L2 analysis and 4.83 (95%CI 4.20–5.55) in L3 analysis. Moreover, seven of nine different multimorbidity disease clusters were predictors for VTE.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>This study demonstrated proof-of-concept that multimorbidity is a novel dose-graded predictor for VTE. Further studies will determine the usefulness of multimorbidity for VTE prediction in different clinical settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34401,"journal":{"name":"Thrombosis Update","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 100198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143162995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Involving patients and the public in cancer associated thrombosis research: A strategy for success

Thrombosis Update Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.tru.2024.100196

Michelle Edwards , Kathy Seddon , Elin Baddeley , Anne Gulbech Ording , Mark Pearson , Isabelle Mahe , Simon Mooijaart , Frederikus A. Klok , Simon I.R. Noble , SERENITY consortium

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