Recent COVID-19 infection puts surgical patients at higher blood clot risk, NIHR

Surgical patients who have recently had COVID-19 are more likely to develop potentially fatal post-operative blood clots, a new NIHR-funded study reveals. Researchers discovered that patients diagnosed with current or previous SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to develop postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE) than those with no history of COVID infection.
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