{"id":1757,"date":"2020-05-13T12:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T02:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2020-05-14T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:48:40","slug":"whats-covid-19-doing-to-our-blood-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2020\/05\/13\/whats-covid-19-doing-to-our-blood-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s COVID-19 doing to our blood vessels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/418248237?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"578\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blood-clotting complications are rapidly emerging as a significant part of the pathogenesis of COVID-19. There are reports of otherwise well people with COVID-10 having strokes, pulmonary emboli and heart attacks, and children with inflammation of their blood vessels. In recent weeks series of cases of a multi-system inflammatory condition, some resembling Kawasaki disease, have been reported in children in Europe, UK and USA.<\/p>\n<p>Our 3 speakers will discuss the role of clotting and blood vessels in COVID-19, and the emerging syndrome in children.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Dave Burgner <\/strong>is a Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH). He is Group Leader Inflammatory Origins, Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute (MCRI), Professorial Fellow in the University of Melbourne, Department of Paediatrics, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at Monash University.\u00a0 Dave is a leading authority on Kawasaki disease.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Paul Monagle <\/strong>is Professor in the University of Melbourne, Department of Paediatrics, a Senior Consultant in Haematology at RCH and Group Leader of Haematology at MCRI.\u00a0 Paul is a world expert in developmental haemostasis and thrombosis in children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Vera Ignjatovic <\/strong>is a Senior Principal Research Fellow, Haematology, MCRI. Vera\u2019s research focus is on the effects of anticoagulants on children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood-clotting complications are rapidly emerging as a significant part of the pathogenesis of COVID-19. There are reports of otherwise well people with COVID-10 having strokes, pulmonary emboli and heart attacks, and children with inflammation of their blood vessels. In recent weeks series of cases of a multi-system inflammatory condition, some resembling Kawasaki disease, have been reported in children in Europe, UK and USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7939,466,7947,7930,7933,7951,7949,5270,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiac","category-clinical","category-education-and-research","category-general-interest","category-infectious-diseases","category-mcri","category-paediatrics","category-research","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}