Percutaneous Mechanical Pulmonary Thrombectomy in a Patient With Pulmonary Embolism as a First Presentation of COVID-19

There has been a high incidence of thromboembolic diseases in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia. We present a case of a healthy 32-year-old male with no past medical history who presented with shortness of breath, tested positive for COVID-19, and was found to have a large...

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Autores principales: Hoilat, Gilles J, Durer, Ceren, Durer, Seren, Gupta, Pratishtha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7402443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32775114
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9506
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description There has been a high incidence of thromboembolic diseases in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia. We present a case of a healthy 32-year-old male with no past medical history who presented with shortness of breath, tested positive for COVID-19, and was found to have a large acute saddle pulmonary embolism.
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spelling pubmed-74024432020-08-06 Percutaneous Mechanical Pulmonary Thrombectomy in a Patient With Pulmonary Embolism as a First Presentation of COVID-19 Hoilat, Gilles J Durer, Ceren Durer, Seren Gupta, Pratishtha Cureus Internal Medicine There has been a high incidence of thromboembolic diseases in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia. We present a case of a healthy 32-year-old male with no past medical history who presented with shortness of breath, tested positive for COVID-19, and was found to have a large acute saddle pulmonary embolism. Cureus 2020-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7402443/ /pubmed/32775114 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9506 Text en Copyright © 2020, Hoilat et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Percutaneous Mechanical Pulmonary Thrombectomy in a Patient With Pulmonary Embolism as a First Presentation of COVID-19
title Percutaneous Mechanical Pulmonary Thrombectomy in a Patient With Pulmonary Embolism as a First Presentation of COVID-19
title_full Percutaneous Mechanical Pulmonary Thrombectomy in a Patient With Pulmonary Embolism as a First Presentation of COVID-19
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title_full_unstemmed Percutaneous Mechanical Pulmonary Thrombectomy in a Patient With Pulmonary Embolism as a First Presentation of COVID-19
title_short Percutaneous Mechanical Pulmonary Thrombectomy in a Patient With Pulmonary Embolism as a First Presentation of COVID-19
title_sort percutaneous mechanical pulmonary thrombectomy in a patient with pulmonary embolism as a first presentation of covid-19
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7402443/
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