{"id":1726,"date":"2021-08-10T20:24:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T20:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2021-08-10T20:24:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T20:24:41","slug":"how-to-increase-platelet-count-in-covid-patients-what-is-thrombocytopenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"How To Increase Platelet Count In COVID Patients? What Is Thrombocytopenia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authors: Ananya Varma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>Platelets are said to play an important role in inflammatory signalling. Here is why it is important to\u00a0keep a check of Platelet count in COVID patients.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">Given that COVID-19&nbsp;is a relatively novel disease, newer research continues to emerge into its characteristics with scientists now linking rapidly decreasing&nbsp;platelets to be a symptom of the infectious virus. Genetically linked to the 2002 SARS-CoV-1 virus, research has now&nbsp;drawn a link between&nbsp;Thrombocytopenia (a condition with low platelets) to the severity of a COVID-19 infection. Here is why it is important to&nbsp;keep a check of Platelet count in COVID patients.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Platelet Count in COVID patients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">As per a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.karger.com\/Article\/FullText\/512007\">study<\/a>, Platelets are said to play an important role in inflammatory signaling as well as in the infectious response of Coronavirus. An analysis of 7,613 COVID-19 patients revealed that patients with severe COVID had a lower platelet count than those with the non-severe disease. Moreover, mild Thrombocytopenia was also detected in those who had severe cases of COVID-19, that is those patients with a lower platelet count.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thrombocytopenia &amp; COVID<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">A\u00a0normal platelet count in human body ranges from 150,000 to 450,000\u00a0platelets\u00a0per microliter of blood. Having less than 150,000 platelets is known as Thrombocytopenia. Older research has shown that of the patients affected by the 2003 SARS epidemic, 20\u201355% had Thrombocytopenia and these patients experienced greater morbidity\/mortality.\u00a0In a similar way, Thrombocytopenia has also been detected in 5\u201341.7% of COVID-19 patients and mild Thrombocytopenia has been detected in 58\u201395% of severe cases of COVID-19. Notably, severely affected patients had a platelet count only 23 \u00d7109\/L to 31 \u00d7109\/L lower than those with the non-severe disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicworld.com\/india-news\/general-news\/how-to-increase-platelet-count-in-covid-patients-what-is-thrombocytopenia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.republicworld.com\/india-news\/general-news\/how-to-increase-platelet-count-in-covid-patients-what-is-thrombocytopenia.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Ananya Varma Platelets are said to play an important role in inflammatory signalling. Here is why it is important to\u00a0keep a check of Platelet count in COVID patients.\u00a0 Given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[718,90,766,252,573,592],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blood-platelets","category-clots-bleeds","category-corticosteroids","category-inflammation","category-thrombocytopenia-2","category-treatments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}