Platelet Aggregation in COVID-19 Patients

Context: Hypercoagulable state associated with COVID-19 is one of the pathologic events that noticed in different waves of COVID-19 pandemics and leads to serious consequences in mortality and morbidity Aim: To evaluate platelet aggregation using light-transmission aggregometry and adenosine diphosphate (ADP) as an agonist in COVID-19 patients. Settings and design: This was prospective cross-sectional study. Patients and methods: Seventy-five individuals were enrolled in this study and divided into two groups, 50 patients with PCR-positive COVID-19 as study group and 25 apparently healthy individual as a control group. All individuals were subjected to full clinical evaluation, CT-chest, laboratory investigations: CBC, INR, LDH, CRP, serum ferritin and platelet aggregation evaluation using light-transmission aggregometry and adenosine diphosphate (ADP) as an agonist