Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Complicated by COVID-19 Infection

A patient underwent surgery for acute type A aortic dissection. Testing for SARS-CoV-2 was positive. The postoperative course was complicated by a mixed viral and bacterial pneumonia with bilateral infiltration, treated with antibiotics and hydroxychloroquine, without any need for reintubation. The...

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Autores principales: Martens, Thomas, Vande Weygaerde, Yannick, Vermassen, Joris, Malfait, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Published by Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7211729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32437675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.05.001
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author Martens, Thomas
Vande Weygaerde, Yannick
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description A patient underwent surgery for acute type A aortic dissection. Testing for SARS-CoV-2 was positive. The postoperative course was complicated by a mixed viral and bacterial pneumonia with bilateral infiltration, treated with antibiotics and hydroxychloroquine, without any need for reintubation. The patient recovered and finally could be discharged. This report shows the feasibility for surgical treatment of acute aortic disease in patients with COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-72117292020-05-11 Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Complicated by COVID-19 Infection Martens, Thomas Vande Weygaerde, Yannick Vermassen, Joris Malfait, Thomas Ann Thorac Surg Case Report A patient underwent surgery for acute type A aortic dissection. Testing for SARS-CoV-2 was positive. The postoperative course was complicated by a mixed viral and bacterial pneumonia with bilateral infiltration, treated with antibiotics and hydroxychloroquine, without any need for reintubation. The patient recovered and finally could be discharged. This report shows the feasibility for surgical treatment of acute aortic disease in patients with COVID-19. by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Published by Elsevier 2020-11 2020-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7211729/ /pubmed/32437675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.05.001 Text en © 2020 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Published by Elsevier. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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