PRIORITY to heart patients, starting with diabetics and severe decompensated people who must be vaccinated as soon as possible to avoid the risks associated with Covid 19 and the difficulties in accessing treatment. Giulio Pompilio, Scientific Director of the Monzino Cardiology Center has no doubts: “The Astra Zeneca affair has magnified the issue of thrombosis as a side effect of the anti-Covid vaccination, but it is absolutely necessary to shift the focus: the serious problem for public health are the thrombotic complications caused by virus in those who get sick, in the short and long term “. And announces the green light for the vaccination plan of the Milanese institute.
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Marina Camera, head of the Monzino Cardiovascular Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Unit adds: “In our recent study published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Basic to Translational Science, we have identified the mechanism responsible for thrombotic complications in Covid-19 patients. Patients with severe forms of Sars-CoV-2 pneumonia suffer from hypoxemia not only from inflammation of the pulmonary alveoli, but also from the presence of micro and macro thrombi in the blood, caused by platelet hyperactivation, which can occlude the vessels pulmonary. The Thrombotic complications are unfortunately present in 15-20% of patients with severe forms of Covid-19 pneumonia and can cause poor prognosis. Our study, suggesting the specific use of antiplatelet drugs to control platelet activation, places the scientific rationale for clinical trials currently underway that are evaluating the efficacy of antiplatelet agents in the treatment of the dreaded thrombotic complications of Sars-CoV infection. -2.
The close link between COVID-19 and thrombosis is still the subject of our attention. In fact, we are following over time the patients who have contracted the infection to understand the mechanisms responsible for the post-Covid syndrome. This condition denotes the persistence of at least one of the symptoms encountered during the acute phase of the disease, in particular fatigue and breathing difficulties, and occurs in 80% of subjects who have had severe forms of Covid-19 and in 30% of subjects pauci-symptomatic “.
Covid and fragile patients, the experts: “Vaccinate them immediately with the over 80”
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“Monzino is at the forefront of the vaccination campaign – he declares Luca Merlino , General Manager of Monzino – the participation of the staff was almost 100% and we are now ready to start with our patients who fall into the category of extremely vulnerable subjects according to the methods and timing that will be indicated to us by the ATS metropolitan city of Milan. It is extremely important that the most fragile patients adhere to the vaccination campaign without fear, especially because their immunization will enable them to live their daily lives more peacefully and to adhere more safely to their treatment path “.
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