Re:Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covi...
by sizzle on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:20AM
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I always take aspirin before flights to avoid DVT due to chronic venous insufficiency and ankle swelling.
Do you recommend aspirin to thin blood for flights where I am sitting with legs bent and pressure from the seat underneath the leg pressing into the skin contributing to clotting?
I am an expert in the field of clotting mechanics (US NIH funded research / vascular surgery fellow). Not sure why they chose TEG to monitor coagulation status - it does not reflect well changes from any of the drugs used in the study.
It would be interesting to see the results broken down by gender - females respond much differently to aspirin and have less of a survival benefit than males (don’t get me started, many of the initial trials in the 60’s with aspirin were done with mostly males).
Also, in my own research - we have found that aspirin “softens” clots which allows platelets to squeeze pathological clots to smaller sizes, which allows more recannalization of thrombosed vessels and thus less ischemia - would be interesting to see if that same MOA happens here.