Abstract
Many aspects of care such as management of hypercoagulable state in COVID-19 patients, especially those admitted to intensive care units is challenging in the rapidly evolving pandemic of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We seek to systematically review the available evidence regarding the anticoagulation approach to prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE) among COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care units. Electronic databases were searched for studies reporting venous thromboembolic events in patients admitted to the intensive care unit receiving any type of anticoagulation (prophylactic or therapeutic). The pooled prevalence (and 95% confidence interval [CI]) of VTE among patients receiving anticoagulant were calculated using the random-effects model. Subgroup pooled analyses were performed with studies reported prophylactic anticoagulation alone and with studies reported mixed prophylactic and therapeutic anticoagulation. We included twelve studies (8 Europe; 2 UK; 1 each from the US and China) in our systematic review and meta-analysis. All studies utilized LMWH or unfractionated heparin as their pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis, either prophylactic doses or therapeutic doses. Seven studies reported on the proportion of patients with the previous history of VTE (range 0–10%). The pooled prevalence of VTE among ICU patients receiving prophylactic or therapeutic anticoagulation across all studies was 31% (95% CI 20–43%). Subgroup pooled analysis limited to studies reported prophylactic anticoagulation alone and mixed (therapeutic and prophylactic anticoagulation) reported pooled prevalences of VTE of 38% (95% CI 10–70%) and 27% (95% CI 17–40%) respectively. With a high prevalence of thromboprophylaxis failure among COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care units, individualised rather than protocolised VTE thromboprophylaxis would appear prudent at interim.
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Highlights
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Despite receiving anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis, a high rate of venous thromboembolism was still observed among COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit.
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The failure rate of pharmacological thromboprophylaxis may be lower with the use of therapeutic anticoagulation among COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit.
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An individualized dosing approach of anticoagulant based on anti-factor Xa monitoring, thromboelastography, or rotational thromboelastometry may be useful to reduce the rate of venous thromboembolism COVID-19 patients.
Introduction
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has claimed over 500,000 lives and infected well over 9 million people as of 27th June 2020 [1]. COVID-19 infection has demonstrated a range of phenotypes from asymptomatic, all the way to multiorgan failure and death. Among the COVID-19 population admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) there has been considerable reporting of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Though hypercoagulability in COVID-19 has been well-recognized, uncertainty still exists as to how best to manage clotting risk in these patients. Like many aspects of care in this rapidly evolving pandemic, the evidence is scarce with adequate quality to inform the approach to the hypercoagulable state in COVID-19 patients.
Since the recognition of the hypercoagulable state in COVID-19 patients, several interim guidance documents have recommended the use of pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 [2,3,4]. Most of these guidelines [2,3,4] recommend the use of unfractionated heparin (UFH) or low molecular weight heparin (LMWH), though the consensus is yet to reach in the recommendations of prophylactic, intermediate, or therapeutic (full) dose anticoagulation. Nevertheless, it is not fully understood how effective pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis in preventing VTE among COVID-19 critically ill patients. We seek to systematically review the available evidence to help guide clinicians weighing up decisions regarding the anticoagulation approach for COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care units.
Methods
This systematic review with meta-analysis was conducted with adherence to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines [5]. Two authors (CSK and SSH) independently performed a systematic literature search in PubMed, and Google Scholar and two preprint servers (medRxiv and SSRN) up to 25th June 2020. Search terms are depicted in Table S1. The titles and abstracts of the resulting articles were examined to exclude irrelevant studies. The full texts of the remaining articles were read to determine if these articles meet our eligibility criteria. Bibliographies of retrieved articles were also reviewed for additional studies. The studies eligible for inclusion reported on the prevalence of venous thromboembolic event (deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) receiving any type of anticoagulation (prophylactic or therapeutic). Articles were excluded if they consist of no original data, report combined arterial and venous thromboembolic events, report mixed ICU and medical patients, or report no pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis. Case study, case series, and case report that may not reflect the true prevalence of VTE were also excluded.
Two authors (CSK and SSH) independently reviewed the primary studies to assess the appropriateness for inclusion and data were extracted. Any discrepancies were addressed by a joint re-evaluation of the original article. The information extracted from each study included the name of the first author, the country from which the study was reported, the design of the study, age information of patients, the proportion of patients with a reported previous history of VTE, information on body weight or body mass index, information on the anticoagulant regimen, and the proportion of patients who developed VTE.
The outcome measure was the prevalence of patients receiving anticoagulants who developed VTE from individual studies. The pooled prevalence (and 95% confidence interval [CI]) of VTE among patients receiving anticoagulant were calculated using the random-effects model. Subgroup pooled analyses were performed with studies reported prophylactic anticoagulation alone and with studies reported mixed prophylactic and therapeutic anticoagulation. All meta-analytical calculations were performed using Meta XL, version 5.3 (EpiGear International, Queensland, Australia) [6]. We examined the heterogeneity between studies using the I2 statistics with 50% as the threshold for statistically significant heterogeneity.
Results
Our search yielded 1,056 titles from the selected databases (Fig. 1), of which 535 titles were duplicates. The remaining 521 records were screened as per PRISMA guidelines against the eligibility criteria described in the previous section. A total of 493 records were excluded after reading the title and abstract. The full-texts of the remaining 28 articles were retrieved for a detailed evaluation. Sixteen articles were excluded due to reasons including absence of original data, reported mixed intensive care units and medical patients, case study/series/report, reported combined arterial and venous thromboembolic events and reported no pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis.
We eventually identified twelve studies [7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18] that reported the prevalence of VTE among ICU patients receiving prophylactic or therapeutic anticoagulation: three studies from France [7,8,9], two studies each from the Netherlands [10, 11], Italy [12, 13], the United Kingdom [14, 15], and one study each from the United States [16], China [17], and Germany [18]. The information extracted from each study is presented in Table 1. The number of patients admitted to intensive care units ranged widely from 20 to 184. Eight out of eleven studies used a retrospective chart review as their study design [7, 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16], whereas among the remaining three studies, two reported prospectively enrolled cohort [8, 18] and one reported a cross-sectional analysis [17]. The mean/median age of patients ranged from 59 to 70 years old. Though not all studies reported on the proportion of patients with the previous history of VTE, we observed a low proportion (0-5.3%) in studies [7,8,9,10, 12, 14] which reported the figures except the study by Zerwes et al. [18] which reported a proportion of 10.0%. All studies [7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18] utilized LMWH or unfractionated heparin as their pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis approach, though with a mixed proportion of patients receiving either prophylactic doses or therapeutic doses.
The pooled prevalence of VTE among ICU patients receiving prophylactic or therapeutic anticoagulation across all studies was 31% (95% CI 20–43%; I2: 92%) (Fig. 2). Subgroup pooled analysis limited to studies reported prophylactic anticoagulation alone in all patients included [14,15,16,17] reported a pooled prevalence of VTE of 38% (95% CI 10–70%; I2: 96%) (Supplementary Fig. S1). Subgroup pooled analysis limited to studies reported mixed therapeutic and prophylactic anticoagulation in all patients included [7,8,9,10,11,12,13, 18] reported a pooled prevalence of VTE of 27% (95% CI 17–40%; I2: 89%) (Supplementary Fig. S2).
Discussion
The hypercoagulable state in COVID-19, which has been termed thrombo-inflammation or COVID-19-associated coagulopathy (CAC) by some experts, can be explained in terms of Virchow’s triad: endothelial injury, stasis of blood flow, and hypercoagulability. In terms of endothelial injury, there is evidence of direct invasion of endothelial cells by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, potentially leading to cell injury [19]. Other sources of endothelial injury may include intravascular catheters and mediators of the acute systemic inflammatory response such as cytokines (e.g., interleukin-6) other acute phase reactants [20]. On the other hand, immobilization during hospitalization with COVID-19, especially severely ill patients admitted to intensive care units, can cause stasis of blood flow. In terms of hypercoagulability, many changes in circulating prothrombotic factors have been reported or proposed in patients with severe COVID-19, including elevated factor VIII level, elevated fibrinogen level, circulating prothrombotic microparticles, and neutrophil extracellular traps [21,22,23].
Therefore, with the recognition of hypercoagulability in COVID-19, the need for effective thromboprophylaxis cannot be overstated. Since no head-to-head trial comparing pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis versus no pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis among ICU patients, as of the time of writing (doubt such trial will be conducted), a comparison of our findings (Table 1) with non-COVID-19 critical care patients is worth exploring. The landmark PROphylaxis for ThromboEmbolism in Critical care (PROTECT) trial that compared the comparative effectiveness of LMWH and UFH in 3764 critically ill patients found the average incidence of VTE of 8.2% and 9.9%, respectively [24]. A subsequent analysis of the PROTECT study by Lim et al. found an overall incidence of VTE of 7.7% [25]. A more relevant comparison of our findings is with critically ill patients who developed sepsis during their hospitalisation, and thus may be at a higher risk of VTE prophylaxis failure. The incidence of VTE in sepsis patients admitted to ICU ranged from 12.5% in a retrospective study of 335 patients to 37% in a prospective study of 113 patients [26, 27]. it is important to note that in the aforementioned prospective study, the average body mass index (BMI) of included patients was 31.7 kg/m2 and high BMI is a known factor of VTE as noted in the PROTECT sub-analysis [25].
Since preliminary evidence indicating a possibility of a higher rate of pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis failure in ICU patients with COVID-19 compared to their non-COVID-19 counterparts, a reconsideration of the current approach may be needed, including the need to implement individualized VTE prophylaxis. It has previously been demonstrated that prophylactic LMWH dosing is associated with subtherapeutic anti-factor Xa levels in critically ill patients, and therefore an individualized dosing approach based on anti-factor Xa monitoring may be useful in COVID-19 patients [28,29,30,31]. Indeed, it has also been recently discovered that prophylactic LMWH dosing was associated with subtherapeutic anti-factor Xa levels among COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care units. Dutt et al. [32] reported that 95% of COVID-19 patients had sub-therapeutic anti-factor Xa levels despite prophylactic LMWH, a figure which was about 3.5 times higher compared to the patients admitted to medical wards (27%).
The outcomes of individual adjustment of LMWH dosing guided by anti-factor Xa monitoring are encouraging, though thus far it was only investigated in surgical or trauma patients [33, 34]. The lower pooled prevalence of VTE in studies reported mixed anticoagulation approach (prophylactic and therapeutic) compared to studies reported prophylactic anticoagulation only (27% versus 38%) may have been possibly driven by on average higher rate of attaintment of target anti-factor Xa levels due to the use of therapeutic anticoagulation in some included patients. Nevertheless, sub-therapeutic anti-factor Xa levels have also been observed in COVID-19 patients on twice-daily therapeutic LMWH regimens [35].
Similarly, anti-factor Xa monitoring in patients receiving unfractionated heparin is associated with better attainment of therapeutic anticoagulation compared to activated partial thromboplastin time monitoring whereby it shortens the time to reach the therapeutic range as well as improves the length of time in the therapeutic range [36]. In fact, the phenomenon of heparin resistance has been observed up to 80% of COVID-19 patients treated with unfractionated heparin in which there was a need for high doses of unfractionated heparin (more than 35,000 IU/day) to achieve the target activated partial thromboplastin time presumably due to increased factor VIII levels [37]. Patients requiring high doses of unfractionated heparin to achieve the target activated partial thromboplastin time may also develop life-threatening bleeding events if they proceed without monitoring of antithrombotic activity via an anti-factor Xa assay.
There has been an increased interest to utilize thromboelastography (TEG) or rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM) in critically ill COVID-19 patients where both tests may be useful to inform individualized clinical decision-making regarding VTE prophylaxis among COVID-19 patients [38]. Viscoelastic observations with TEG among critically ill COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit revealed hypercoagulable state with decreased R time and K time as well as elevated fibrinogen activity greater than a 73° angle and maximum amplitude more than 65 mm with heparinase correction [39, 40]. Whereas, viscoelastic observations with ROTEM observed significantly higher maximum clot firmness and clotting time as well as significantly shorter clot formation time among COVID-19 patients compared with healthy controls (p < 0.001) [41]. In fact, comparison among COVID-19 patients reported that maximum clot firmness and clotting time were significantly longer in those admitted to medical wards relative to those in specialized wards (intermediate wards/intensive care units). Thus far, there is only one randomized controlled trial [42] which assessed TEG-based protocol for the dosing of unfractionated heparin among patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation which reported reduced dose of heparin used compared with aPTT-based protocol, with no difference between the two protocols in terms of thrombotic and haemorrhagic events.
Our analysis does have some limitations. Firstly, there were no randomized controlled trials available that investigate the effectiveness of heparin-based pharmacological thromboprophylaxis among critically ill COVID-19 patients at the time of the literature search. Secondly, ten out of twelve studies included in our meta-analysis originate from European countries, which may limit the generalizability of the results to COVID-19 populations from other continents. Thirdly, we were unable to perform subgroup analysis strictly on patients receiving therapeutic anticoagulation and patients receiving prophylactic anticoagulation since the included original studies did not segregate their data based on the intensity of anticoagulation.
Conclusions
Further study into anticoagulant selection, dosing regimens, and monitoring are needed in this important population of critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care units. Until prospective or randomised studies with a clear description of baseline factors and adequate follow up, the best approach for managing VTE will be uncertain. Individualised rather than protocolised thromboprophylaxis would appear prudent at interim. Besides, maintaining a strong index of suspicion for VTE and the possibility of chemoprophylaxis failure is recommended. Likewise, future studies may investigate the effectiveness of anti-factor Xa-guided or TEG/ROTEM-based heparin dosing in reducing the high prevalence of thromboprophylaxis failure in COVID-19 patients.
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Hasan, S.S., Radford, S., Kow, C.S. et al. Venous thromboembolism in critically ill COVID-19 patients receiving prophylactic or therapeutic anticoagulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Thromb Thrombolysis 50, 814–821 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11239-020-02235-z
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