📆 January 2, 2020 Active #astronaut 👨‍🚀 surveillance and experimental models are critical to the development of prevention and management strategies for venous #thromboembolism 🩸 in #weightlessness, especially with future plans for prolonged #SpaceTravel to the #Moon 🌙 and #Mars 🔴 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1905875

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https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2021012250

"Due to widespread #endothelial dysfunction and thrombosis, #COVID19 has the ability to affect nearly any organ. Pulmonary disease, specifically ARDS, may be driven in large part by vascular dysfunction & #microvascular thrombosis. Increased thrombotic events, most notably venous #thromboembolism but also myocardial infarction and stroke, have been reported. Vascular dysfunction may contribute #neurologic, renal & dermatologic manifestations
as well as #pacs & #misc "