Are Enzymes a Key to COVID Endothelial Injury?

Lumbrokinase is a highly effective antithrombotic agent that reduces blood viscosity and platelet aggregation while also degrading fibrin.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Studies suggest damage to the endothelium, which are cells covering blood vessels, is contributing to the development of blood clots, or thrombosis, in the blood vessels of severely ill COVID-19 patients

• Enzymes may turn out to be the missing link in helping to break up clusters of clotting proteins involved in this dangerous thrombosis,…