Clotting abnormalities in critically ill COVID-19 patients are inconsistent with overt disseminated intravascular coagulation

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Santa Maria Hospital, GVM Care & Research, Bari, Italy; Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy. Electronic address: domenico.paparella@uniba.it.
• ² Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Consorziale Policlinico di Bari, Bari, Italy.
• ³ Department of Emergency and Organ Transplant, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy; Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department, Heart and Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
• ⁴ Department of Emergency and Organ Transplant, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
• ⁵ Section of Experimental and Clinical Pathology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
• ⁶ Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Consorziale Policlinico di Bari, Bari, Italy; Section of Experimental and Clinical Pathology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.