In the largest analysis of clinical cases published, an extremely significant increase of D-dimer has been noted in about 60 % of patients with a severe illness (older individuals and those who have one or more co-morbidities) and development of DIC characterizes >70 % of patients who did not survive the infection ( Guan et al., 2020 ; Ranucci et al., 2020 ).
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