Is there a role for tissue plasminogen activator as a novel treatment for refractory COVID-19 associated acute respiratory distress syndrome?

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Surgery (H.B.M., E.E.M., R.C.M.), University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado; Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Center for Precision Cancer Medicine, Departments of Biological Engineering and Biology (C.D.B., M.B.Y.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery (C.D.B., M.B.Y.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Surgery (E.E.M.), Ernest E Moore Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health; Department of Medicine (P.K.M.), University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine (D.S.T.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Surgery (F.A.M.), University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Hunter B Moore et al. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;88(6):713-714.

doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002694.

¹ From the Department of Surgery (H.B.M., E.E.M., R.C.M.), University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado; Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Center for Precision Cancer Medicine, Departments of Biological Engineering and Biology (C.D.B., M.B.Y.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery (C.D.B., M.B.Y.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Surgery (E.E.M.), Ernest E Moore Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health; Department of Medicine (P.K.M.), University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine (D.S.T.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Surgery (F.A.M.), University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

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